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Rodrigo A Vicencio1, Mario I Molina, Yuri S Kivshar
1Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile. rodrigov@fisica.ciencias.uchile.cl
Optics Letters
|January 14, 2005
Abstract:
We study all-optical switching based on the dynamic properties of discrete vector solitons in waveguide arrays. We employ the concept of polarization mode instability and demonstrate simultaneous switching and amplification of a weak signal by a strong pump of the opposite polarization.
