Dynamics of discrete solitons in optical waveguide arrays

R Morandotti, U Peschel, JS Aitchison, HS Eisenberg… - Physical Review Letters, 1999 - APS
… initially moving soliton at a single waveguide. We also show that discrete solitons can acquire
transverse momentum and propagate at an angle with respect to the waveguide direction, …

Observation of discrete solitons in optically induced real time waveguide arrays

JW Fleischer, T Carmon, M Segev, NK Efremidis… - Physical review …, 2003 - APS
… of discrete solitons in an array of optically induced waveguides. The waveguide lattice is …
We demonstrate two types of bright discrete solitons: in-phase selflocalized states and the …

Discrete solitons in optics

F Lederer, GI Stegeman, DN Christodoulides… - Physics Reports, 2008 - Elsevier
… Finally, soliton formation in optical quasi-crystals and at the boundaries of waveguide array
… In such periodic waveguide arrays, light can be readily confined at discrete sites (in weakly …

Optical discrete solitons in waveguide arrays. I. Soliton formation

HS Eisenberg, R Morandotti, Y Silberberg, JM Arnold… - JOSA B, 2002 - opg.optica.org
… of discrete spatial solitons in arrays of coupled waveguides. Light was launched into the center
of the array, and different beam sizes and array … it couples to more waveguides. When the …

Gap solitons in waveguide arrays

D Mandelik, R Morandotti, JS Aitchison, Y Silberberg - Physical review letters, 2004 - APS
… dark discrete gap soliton. In conclusion, bright and dark spatial gap solitons have been
demonstrated in waveguide arrays, by … gap solitons. The resonant interaction of the beam with the …

Spatial optical solitons in waveguide arrays

AA Sukhorukov, YS Kivshar… - IEEE Journal of …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… and steering of spatial solitons and diffraction management in waveguide arrays. We also
… the dynamics of discrete gap solitons can be observed in a binary waveguide array. Finally, …

Observation of diffraction-managed discrete solitons in curved waveguide arrays

A Szameit, IL Garanovich, M Heinrich, A Minovich… - Physical Review A …, 2008 - APS
… We observe the formation of discrete diffraction-managed optical solitons in arrays of
periodically curved coupled waveguides for two types of modulated structures: laser-written arrays

Discrete solitons

F Lederer, Y Silberberg - Optics and Photonics News, 2002 - opg.optica.org
… tion around the input waveguide, which propagates as a discrete soliton.Since the … ,
waveguide arrays can be used to form both bright solitons (as shown in Fig. 4) and dark solitons in …

Soliton-based optical switching in waveguide arrays

W Królikowski, YS Kivshar - JOSA B, 1996 - opg.optica.org
discrete solitons in a periodic system of weakly coupled nonlinear optical waveguides, ie, a
waveguide array… switching and steering of discrete solitons in waveguide arrays and also to …

Discrete solitons in inhomogeneous waveguide arrays

T Pertsch, U Peschel, F Lederer - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
… modes of the soliton with the longitudinal structure may lead to soliton oscillations and decay…
stability of discrete solitons in arrays exhibiting a linear variation of the waveguide effective …