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Self-trapping of polychromatic light in nonlinear photonic lattices

Optics 2009-04-01 v1

Abstract

We study dynamical reshaping of polychromatic beams due to collective nonlinear self-action of multiple-frequency components in periodic photonic lattices and predict the formation of polychromatic discrete solitons facilitated by localization of light in spectral gaps. We show that the self-trapping efficiency and structure of emerging polychromatic gap solitons depends on the spectrum of input beams due to the lattice-enhanced dispersion, including the effect of crossover from localization to diffraction in media with defocusing nonlinearity.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0604232,
  title  = {Self-trapping of polychromatic light in nonlinear photonic lattices},
  author = {Kristian Motzek and Andrey A. Sukhorukov and Yuri S. Kivshar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0604232},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures