Bi-directional spatial soliton emission at engineered nonlinear waveguide interfaces

We observed tunable bi-directional emission of spatial solitons at a quadratically nonlinear interface in periodically poled lithium niobate planar waveguides. The interface consists of the boundary between two quasi-phase-matched regions with a different poling period. We show the intensity and phase-mismatch (temperature or wavelength) dependence of the phenomena.