Spatiotemporal control of light by Bloch-mode dispersion in multi-core fibers

Date

2008-04-11

Authors

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

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Optical Society of America

Abstract

We study theoretically the dispersion properties of Bloch modes and nonlinearly-induced defect states in two-dimensional waveguide arrays. We define the conditions for achieving anomalous group-velocity dispersion and discuss possibilities for generation of spatiotemporal solitons.

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waveguides, pulse propagation and solitons

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Optics Express 16.8 (2008): 5878-5891

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Optics Express

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