[OPTICAL REVIEW Vol. 7, No. 4 (2000) 323-325]

Acousto-Optic Solitons in Fibers

Gennadiy BURLAK,1 Svetlana KOSHEVAYA,1 Masashi HAYAKAWA,2 Edmundo GUTIERREZ-D3 and Vladimir GRIMALSKY1,3

1Center for Research on Engineering and Applied Sciences. Autonomous State University of Morelos. Ave. Universidad, No 1001, C.P. 62210, Cuernavaca, Mor. Mexico, 2Department of Electronic Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585 Japan 3National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics(INAOE), P.O.Box 51&216, Z.P. 72000, Puebla, Mexico

(Received January 6, 2000; Accepted April 21, 2000)

It is shown that the deceleration of light pulses down to the velocity of a sound value can be realized in a case of unidirectional parametric interaction of two electromagnetic waves with an acoustic one in the regime of forming three wave acousto-optic solitons. This nonlinear acousto-optic interaction can be realized in long distance systems like fibers. As the result of such an interaction, two types of acousto-optic envelope solitons can propagate in fibers. Modulation of the amplitude of the electromagnetic pump wave can control the soliton velocity.

Key words : nonlinearity, optical fiber, acousto-optic soliton, controlling, velocity

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