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Power-dependent soliton steering in thermal nonlinear media (0908.3071v1)
Published 21 Aug 2009 in physics.optics and nlin.PS
Abstract: We address the existence and properties of optical solitons excited in thermal nonlinear media with a transverse refractive index gradient. We show that in such a geometry one can generate controllable switching from surface soliton propagating near the sample edges to bulk solitons. Beam steering associated to the different soliton output locations can be achieved by varying the input light intensity.