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Observation of two-dimensional coherent surface vector lattice solitons

Optics 2015-05-13 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We report the first experimental observation of vector surface solitons, which form at the edge and in the corner of two-dimensional laser-written waveguide arrays. These elliptically polarized vector states are composed of two orthogonally polarized components. They exist only above a power threshold and bifurcate from scalar surface solitons. The components of a vector soliton may have substantially different degrees of localization in certain parameter ranges.

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@article{arxiv.0904.1787,
  title  = {Observation of two-dimensional coherent surface vector lattice solitons},
  author = {M. Heinrich and Y. V. Kartashov and A. Szameit and F. Dreisow and R. Keil and S. Nolte and A. Tunnermann and V. A. Vysloukh and L. Torner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.1787},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Optics Letters

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