Nonlinear self-trapping of broad beams in defocusing lithium niobate waveguide arrays

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Alexander, Tristram J
Haslinger, Franz
Mitchell, Arnan
Neshev, Dragomir
Kivshar, Yuri

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc)

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We demonstrate experimentally the localization of broad beams in defocusing waveguide arrays. Unlike gap solitons, these novel localized states have an arbitrary width defined by the size of the input beam while independent on nonlinearity.

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Proceedings of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2011)

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2037-12-31