Read/Write All-Optical Buffer by self-trapped Gap Simultons

C. Conti, G. Assanto and S. Trillo

Electron. Lett. 34, 689-691 (1998)

Abstract:

Stationary two-colour gap solitons or simultons, can be excited through nonlinearly induced Bragg localisation in media for second harmonic generation. Such trapped states can be `written` in the structure through the inelastic collision of counterpropagating pulses at the fundamental frequency, and can be `read` and `erased` by launching another pulse of similar characteristics.