Diffraction-managed solitons and nonlinear beam diffusion in modulated waveguide arrays

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Szameit, Alexander
Garanovich, Ivan
Heinrich, Matthias
Minovich, Aliaksandr
Dreisow, Felix
Pertsch, Thomas
Neshev, Dragomir
Nolte, Stefan
Tünnermann, Andreas
Mitchell, Arnan

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc)

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We present the first experimental observation of nonlinear beam diffusion and formation of diffraction-managed solitons in periodically-curved arrays of coupled optical waveguides created using femtosecond laser writing in silica glass, and titanium indiffusion in LiNbO3 crystals.

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Proceedings of CLEO/QELS 2008

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2037-12-31