Optics Express 2013-02-25

Observation of surface dark photovoltaic solitons.

Xi Yang, Weiqiang Chen, Peng Yao, Tianhao Zhang, Jianguo Tian, Jingjun Xu

Index: Opt. Express 21(4) , 4783-9, (2013)

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Abstract

Surface dark solitons in photovoltaic nonlinear media are reported. Taking advantage of diffusion and photovoltaic nonlinearities we demonstrated the surface dark solitons and their behaviors near surface theoretically and experimentally in LiNbO₃ crystal. It is very interesting that surface dark soliton is just half of dark soliton in bulk. Another interesting thing is that transverse modulation instability can be perfectly suppressed by surface dark soliton in virtue of surface. In addition, surface waveguides were written successfully utilizing surface dark soliton.