Photon trapping and transfer with solitons
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Author(s)
Steiglitz, Ken
Rand, Darren A.
Date Issued
February 2009
Journal
Physical Review A
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Steiglitz, Ken , and Darren Rand. “Photon trapping and transfer with solitons.” Physical Review A 79.2 (2009): 021802.(C) 2010 The American Physical Society.
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Abstract
We show, numerically, that a single photon trapped by a soliton in a Kerr nonlinear medium can be transferred from one soliton to another when the captor soliton undergoes collision with a second soliton. Soliton collisions can also be used in this way to realize a beam splitter, as well as a mode-separating beam splitter, analogous to the usual polarizing beam splitter. We discuss briefly the feasibility of an optical fiber implementation and possible applications to quantum-information processing.
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Lincoln Laboratory
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.79.021802
