Observation of polychromatic gap solitons

Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Alexander Dreischuh, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Jeremy Bolger, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Lam Bui, Arnan Mitchell, Yuri S. Kivshar

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    Abstract

    We study theoretically and observe experimentally polychromatic gap solitons generated by supercontinuum light in an array of optical waveguides. The solitons are formed through a sharp transition from diffraction-induced broadening and color separation to the simultaneous spatio-spectral localization of supercontinuum light inside the photonic bandgap with the formation of the characteristic staggered phase structure for all colors.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)5991-5996
    Number of pages6
    JournalOptics Express
    Volume16
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 28 Apr 2008

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