Spatiotemporal light localization in infiltrated waveguide arrays

Rasmussen, Per Dalgaard; Neshev, Dragomir; Bang, Ole; Laegsgaard, Jesper; Krolikowski, Wieslaw; Sukhorukov, Andrey; Kivshar, Yuri

Spatiotemporal light localization in infiltrated waveguide arrays

Date

2008

Authors

Rasmussen, Per Dalgaard

Neshev, Dragomir

Bang, Ole

Laegsgaard, Jesper

Krolikowski, Wieslaw

Sukhorukov, Andrey

Kivshar, Yuri

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc)

Abstract

We study light propagation in hexagonal waveguide arrays and show that simultaneous spatiotemporal localisation is possible by combination of engineered anomalous dispersion through selective excitation of Bloch-modes and spatial confinement in a nonlinear defect mode.