Controlled generation and steering of spatial gap solitons. Academic Article

abstract

• We demonstrate the first fully controlled generation of immobile and slow spatial gap solitons in nonlinear periodic systems with band-gap spectra, and observe the key features of gap solitons that distinguish them from discrete solitons, including a dynamical transformation of gap solitons due to nonlinear interband coupling. We also describe theoretically and confirm experimentally the effect of the anomalous steering of gap solitons in optically induced photonic lattices.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Neshev, D., Sukhorukov, A. A., Hanna, B., Krolikowski, W., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

• 97

complete list of authors

• Neshev, Dragomir||Sukhorukov, Andrey A||Hanna, Brendan||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

• August 2004

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.083905

start page

• 083905

end page

• 1198

volume

• 93

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.93.083905