Observation of polychromatic gap solitons

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2008-04-14

Authors

Neshev, Dragomir
Dreischuh, Alexander
Bolger, J
Eggleton, Benjamin J
Bui, Lam
Mitchell, Arnan
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
Sukhorukov, Andrey
Kivshar, Yuri

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Optical Society of America

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.

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nonlinear optics, transverse effects in, nonlinear optics: pulse propagation and solitons, self-action effects

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Optics Express 16.9 (2008): 5991-5996

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Optics Express

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