Counterpropagating solitons at boundary of photonic lattices. Academic Article

abstract

• We study numerically the interaction of two counterpropagating (CP) optical beams near the boundary of a truncated one-dimensional photonic lattice. We demonstrate that the mutual coupling of beams suppresses the effective repulsion from the lattice edge, resulting in the formation of CP surface solitons. Such localized beams may propagate in the same, as well as in neighboring, waveguides. We also reveal that the lattice disorder reduces substantially the threshold power for the formation of CP surface states.

authors

• Belic, Milivoj

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Jovi, D., Timotijevi, D., Piper, A., Aleksi, N., Kivshar, Y. S., & Beli, M.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Jović, Dragana||Timotijević, Dejan||Piper, Aleksandra||Aleksić, Najdan||Kivshar, Yuri S||Belić, Milivoj

publication date

• July 2010

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5103 Classical Physics
• 5108 Quantum Physics

PubMed Central ID

• 20634828

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OL.35.002355

start page

• 2355

end page

• 2357

volume

• 35

issue

• 14

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.35.002355