Counterpropagating beams in rotationally symmetric photonic lattices Academic Article

abstract

• Various properties of counterpropagating mutually incoherent self-trapped beams in optically induced circular photonic lattices with ring defects are investigated numerically. We utilize a local isotropic dynamical model with a Kerr-type saturable nonlinearity. Different incident beam structures are considered. We find spontaneous symmetry breaking of the head-on propagating Gaussian beams. In the case of vortices, we observe beam filamentation and a strong pinning of filaments to the lattice sites. Using a modified Petviashvili's method, we report several novel solitonic structures. 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

authors

• Belic, Milivoj

published proceedings

• OPTICAL MATERIALS

author list (cited authors)

• Jovic, D., Jovanovic, R., Prvanovic, S., Petrovic, M., & Belic, M.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Jović, Dragana||Jovanović, Raka||Prvanović, Slobodan||Petrović, Milan||Belić, Milivoj

publication date

• March 2008

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Optical Materials  Journal

keywords

• Circular Photonic Lattices
• Ring Defects
• Solitonic Structures

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.optmat.2007.05.054

start page

• 1173

end page

• 1176

volume

• 30

issue

• 7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2007.05.054