Airy beam induced optical routing

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates an all-optical routing system using Airy beams to create reconfigurable, addressable output channels and splitters, verified through experiments and simulations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel all-optical routing and splitting scheme utilizing Airy beams for the first time.

Findings

Successfully demonstrated reconfigurable optical routing with Airy beams

Achieved simultaneous activation of multiple output channels

Validated results with numerical simulations

Abstract

We present an all-optical routing scheme based simultaneously on optically induced photonic structures and the Airy beam family. The presented work utilizes these accelerating beams for the demonstration of an all-optical router with individually addressable output channels. In addition, we are able to activate multiple channels at the same time providing us with an optically induced splitter with configurable outputs. The experimental results are corroborated by corresponding numerical simulations.