Generation of surface soliton arrays
Optics
2009-11-11 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We discover that at the edge of optical lattice imprinted in saturable nonlinear media one-dimensional surface solitons exist only within a band of light intensities, and that they cease to exist when the lattice depth exceeds an upper threshold. We also reveal the generation of arrays of two-dimensional surface solitons mediated by transverse modulational instability of one-dimensional solitons, a process that is found to exhibit specific features associated to properties of the optical lattice.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0605153,
title = {Generation of surface soliton arrays},
author = {Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Victor A. Vysloukh and Dumitru Mihalache and Lluis Torner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0605153},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Optics Letters