Apodizer Design to Efficiently Couple Light into a Fiber Bragg Grating
We use an optimal control framework to efficiently couple light into a fiber Bragg grating, improving a previously-reported 66 percent transmission to 88 percent.
Stability and instability of nonlinear defect states in the coupled mode equations---analytical and numerical study
Coupled backward and forward wave amplitudes of an electromagnetic field propagating in a periodic and nonlinear medium at Bragg resonance are governed by the nonlinear coupled …
Trapping light with grating defects
Gap solitons are localized traveling waves that exist in Bragg grating optical fibers. We demonstrate a family of grating defects that support linear and nonlinear standing wave …
Stopping Light on a Defect
Gap solitons are localized nonlinear coherent states that have been shown both theoretically and experimentally to propagate in periodic structures. Although theory allows for …
Nonlinear propagation of light in one-dimensional periodic structures
We consider the nonlinear propagation of light in an optical fiber waveguide as modeled by the anharmonic Maxwell-Lorentz equations (AMLE). The waveguide is assumed to have an …