Optical ratchets with discrete cavity solitons.

Full Abstract

We propose a setup to observe soliton ratchet effects using discrete cavity solitons in a 1D array of coupled waveguide optical resonators. The net motion of solitons can be generated by an adiabatic shaking of the holding beam with zero average inclination angle. The resulting soliton velocity can be controlled by different parameters of the holding beam.

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Author/s: Gorbach, Andrey V (AV); Denisov, Sergey (S); Flach, Sergej (S);

Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse, Germany. A.Gorbach(-atsign-)bath.ac.uk

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Optics letters (Opt Lett), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Jun; vol 31 (issue 11) : pp 1702-4

Dates: Created 2006/05/11; Completed 2006/07/07;

PMID: 16688267, status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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