We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that the transverse instability of coherent soliton stripes can be greatly suppressed or totally eliminated when the soliton stripes propagate in a one-dimensional photonic lattice under self-defocusing nonlinearity.
@article{arxiv.1205.0767,
title = {Elimination of transverse instability in stripe solitons by one-dimensional lattices},
author = {Jianke Yang and Daniel Gallardo and Alexandra Miller and Zhigang Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0767},
year = {2012}
}