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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Soliton mediated optical quantization in the transmission of one-dimensional photonic crystals
Falk Eilenberger1, C Martijn de Sterke, Benjamin J Eggleton
1Centre for Ultra-high bandwidth Devices for Optics Systems, Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. falk.eilenberger@uni-jena.de
Abstract:
We report the experimental and numerical observation of step-like behavior of the high-intensity transmission deep inside the bandgap of a 1D photonic crystal. We show this to be a novel manifestation of the quantization of the soliton area, and derive an upper limit for the energy of the transmission steps, which is consistent with measurements and simulations.

