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Controlled generation and steering of spatial gap solitons

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2007-05-23 v2 Optics

Abstract

We demonstrate the first fully controlled generation of immobile and slow spatial gap solitons in nonlinear periodic systems with band-gap spectra, and reveal the key features of gap solitons which distinguish them from conventional counterparts, including a dynamical transformation of gap solitons due to nonlinear inter-band coupling. We also predict theoretically and confirm experimentally the effect of anomalous steering of gap solitons in optically-induced photonic lattices.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0311059,
  title  = {Controlled generation and steering of spatial gap solitons},
  author = {Dragomir Neshev and Andrey A. Sukhorukov and Brendan Hanna and Wieslaw Krolikowski and Yuri S. Kivshar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0311059},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures