Creating light-made waveguides with structured optical beams in nonlinear Kerr media

M. Zamboni-Rached, K. Z. Nobrega, and Mo Mojahedi

Phys. Rev. A 109, 053502 – Published 2 May 2024

Abstract

While in linear optics the subject of structured light has been a fruitful field of both theoretical and applied research, its development in the arena of nonlinear optics has been underexplored. In this paper, we construct frozen-wave-type structured optical beams in Kerr nonlinear media, emphasizing the self-defocusing case, and we use them to guide and control Gaussian optical beams. The results presented in this study support the expectation that structured light in nonlinear media can open new avenues of theoretical research and applications, particularly in the realms of light controlling light and for all-optical photonics.

Received 29 August 2023
Accepted 5 March 2024

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.053502

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Angular momentum of light Classical optics Near-field optics Nonlinear optics Optics & lasers Photonics Structured light X-ray beams & optics

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

M. Zamboni-Rached ^*,†

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, 13083-852, Brazil

K. Z. Nobrega

Department of Teleinformatics Engineering, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceará, 60455-970, Brazil

Mo Mojahedi

The Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4

^*Also at The Edward S. Rogers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
^†mzamboni@decom.fee.unicamp.br

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Vol. 109, Iss. 5 — May 2024

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