Observation of polychromatic gap solitons generated by supercontinuum light

Neshev, Dragomir; Dreischuh, Alexander; Fischer, Robert; Ha, Sangwoo; Bolger, J; Eggleton, Benjamin J; Mitchell, Arnan; Austin, Michael W.; Krolikowski, Wieslaw; Sukhorukov, Andrey; Kivshar, Yuri

Observation of polychromatic gap solitons generated by supercontinuum light

Date

2007

Authors

Neshev, Dragomir

Dreischuh, Alexander

Fischer, Robert

Ha, Sangwoo

Bolger, J

Eggleton, Benjamin J

Mitchell, Arnan

Austin, Michael W.

Krolikowski, Wieslaw

Sukhorukov, Andrey

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Abstract

We present the first observation of simultaneous spatio-spectral localization and formation of a supercontinuum gap soliton in an optical waveguide array, demonstrating new possibilities for tunable reshaping of polychromatic light in nonlinear periodic photonic structures.