Observation of discrete gap solitons in binary waveguide arrays

Roberto Morandotti; Daniel Mandelik; Yaron Silberberg; J. Stewart Aitchison; Marc Sorel; Demetrios N. Christodoulides; Andrey A. Sukhorukov; Yuri S. Kivshar

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Observation of discrete gap solitons in binary waveguide arrays

Roberto Morandotti^*, Daniel Mandelik, Yaron Silberberg, J. Stewart Aitchison, Marc Sorel, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Yuri S. Kivshar

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We report an experimental study of discrete gap solitons in binary arrays of optical waveguides. We observe self-focusing indicating soliton generation when the inclination angle of an input beam is slightly above the Bragg angle and show that the propagation direction of the emerging gap soliton is influenced by the effect of interband momentum exchange.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2890-2892
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	29
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.29.002890
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2004

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