Energy Transfer through Photorefractive Spatial Soliton Interaction

Abstract

In this research, we investigate the interaction between colliding photorefractive spatial solitons. The energy transfer from a vector soliton to a scalar soliton is quantitatively investigated. The energy exchange efficiency increases as the input intensity ratio of the vector soliton increases, while it decreases as the collision angle increases. It is also found that the spatial solitons interact with each other like particles, and the energy of each soliton is conserved after the collision. This observation provides preliminary data for optical computation applications via photorefractive spatial solitons.