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Crossover from self-defocusing to discrete trapping in nonlinear waveguide arrays

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2009-04-01 v1 Optics

Abstract

We predict a sharp crossover from nonlinear self-defocusing to discrete self-trapping of a narrow Gaussian beam with the increase of the refractive index contrast in a periodic photonic lattice. We demonstrate experimentally nonlinear discrete localization of light with defocusing nonlinearity by single site excitation in LiNbO3_3 waveguide arrays.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0511053,
  title  = {Crossover from self-defocusing to discrete trapping in nonlinear waveguide arrays},
  author = {Michal Matuszewski and Christian R. Rosberg and Dragomir N. Neshev and Andrey A. Sukhorukov and Arnan Mitchell and Marek Trippenbach and Michael W. Austin and Wieslaw Krolikowski and Yuri S. Kivshar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0511053},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures

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