Steering of weak-light spatial solitons in a resonant lambda-type atomic system

We study steering of weak-light solitons in a resonant lambda-type atomic system. Signal soliton steering can be realized via input angle and power control of the control soliton. It is shown that, the deflection angle of a vertical input signal soliton increases linearly with the increase of the input angle of the control soliton due to the repulsive effect in collision, and thus leads to the increase of the output position shift of the signal soliton. When a signal soliton is input parallel with a control soliton, the output position shift of the signal soliton depends parabolically on the normalized power of the control soliton. Decreasing their soliton separation can increase the output position shift of the signal soliton. These properties may be useful in all-optical soliton switching and optical information processing, etc.