Light-induced interconnects using nonlinear Airy beam interactions

Thomas Bouchet (1, 2) , Nicolas Marsal (1, 2) , Marc Sciamanna (1, 2) , D. Wolfersberger (2, 1)

1 LMOPS - Laboratoire Matériaux Optiques, Photonique et Systèmes
2 Chaire Photonique

We analyze numerically optical waveguiding structures created in photorefractive media by two incoherent counter-propagating 1-D Airy beams under anti-symmetric nonlinear self-focusing conditions. We then inject a Gaussian probe beam to test our waveguiding structure. By using an anti-symmetric Airy beam configuration in stationary conditions, we find rich and complex waveguiding structures with multiple input to multiple output configurations and transverse input-to-output shifts up to 13 times the guided beam's waist.

Domains: Nonlinear Sciences [physics]; Pattern Formation and Solitons [nlin.PS]

Thomas Bouchet, Nicolas Marsal, Marc Sciamanna, D. Wolfersberger. Light-induced interconnects using nonlinear Airy beam interactions. Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2019, 1 (2), pp.025001. ⟨10.1088/2515-7647⟩. ⟨hal-01988735⟩