Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 18, 2026

Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Blue self-frequency shift of slow solitons and radiation locking in a line-defect waveguide
P Colman1, S Combrié, G Lehoucq
1Thales Research and Technology France Campus Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.
Abstract:
We investigate experimentally resonant radiation processes driven by slow solitons in a dispersion-engineered photonic crystal waveguide in a regime virtually free of dissipative nonlinear processes (two-photon absorption and Raman scattering). Strong (30% energy conversion) Cherenkov-like radiation accompanied by the blue self-frequency shift of the soliton is observed close to the zero dispersion point, and is explained in terms of the soliton-radiation locking of the velocity.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Standing Waves in a Cavity
Interference and Diffraction
Traveling Waves: Lossless Lines
The de Broglie Wavelength
Standing Electromagnetic Waves
Suppose a sheet of a perfect conductor is placed in the yz-plane, and a linearly polarized electromagnetic wave traveling in the...
Bewley Lattice Diagram

