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Surface multi-gap vector solitons

Optics 2009-04-01 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We analyze nonlinear collective effects near surfaces of semi-infinite periodic systems with multi-gap transmission spectra and introduce a novel concept of multi-gap surface solitons as mutually trapped surface states with the components associated with different spectral gaps. We find numerically discrete surface modes in semi-infinite binary waveguide arrays which can support simultaneously two types of discrete solitons, and analyze different multi-gap states including the soliton-induced waveguides with the guided modes from different gaps and composite vector solitons.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0604031,
  title  = {Surface multi-gap vector solitons},
  author = {Ivan L. Garanovich and Andrey A. Sukhorukov and Yuri S. Kivshar and Mario Molina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0604031},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures