Numerical and experimental investigations of vector soliton bound-states in a Kerr planar waveguide

M. Delque (1) , M. Chauvet (1) , H. Maillotte (1) , T. Sylvestre (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

We investigate both numerically and experimentally the stability of a vector three-soliton bound state in a Kerr CS2 planar waveguide using the circular polarizations as the two-component of the multimode vector soliton (MVS). The molecular-reorientation-induced Kerr nonlinearity of CS2 leads in this case to a strength of cross-phase modulation that is 7 times larger than that of self-phase modulation. We demonstrate that, under these conditions, the MVS exhibits symmetry-breaking instability leading to different output intensity patterns ranging from three to one-hump vector solitons.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

M. Delque, M. Chauvet, H. Maillotte, T. Sylvestre. Numerical and experimental investigations of vector soliton bound-states in a Kerr planar waveguide. Optics Communications, 2005, 249, n° 1-3, pp.285-291. ⟨hal-00097378⟩