The mutually-trapped propagation of orthogonally polarized beam pair in plannar waveguides

Abstract

The propagation of two orthogonally polarized coaxial light beams in plannar waveguides is studied by variational approach as well as numerical method. The condition for soliton-like mutually-trapped propagation of the two beams is obtained. We analysed the different characteristics of mutually-trapped propagation in two cases with or without linear birefringence. We find that there is an essential difference between mutually-trapping beams and the rigorous vector spatial soliton.