Observation of nonlinear surface waves in modulated waveguide arrays

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Qi, Xinyuan
Garanovich, Ivan L
Xu, Zhiyong
Sukhorukov, Andrey
Mitchell, Arnan
Zhang, Guoquan
Neshev, Dragomir
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
Kivshar, Yuri

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Optical Society of America

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We describe theoretically and study experimentally nonlinear surface waves at the edge of a modulated waveguide array with a surface defect and a self-defocusing nonlinearity. We fabricate such structures in a LiNbO(3) crystal and demonstrate the beam switching to different output waveguides with a change of the light intensity due to nonlinear coupling between the linear surface modes supported by the array.

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Optics letters

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