Observation of surface gap solitons in semi-infinite waveguide arrays. Academic Article

abstract

• We report on the observation of surface gap solitons found to exist at the interface between uniform and periodic dielectric media with defocusing nonlinearity. We demonstrate strong self-trapping at the edge of a LiNbO3 waveguide array and the formation of staggered surface solitons with propagation constant inside the first photonic band gap. We study the crossover between linear repulsion and nonlinear attraction at the surface, revealing the mechanism of nonlinearity-mediated stabilization of the surface gap modes.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Rosberg, C. R., Neshev, D. N., Krolikowski, W., Mitchell, A., Vicencio, R. A., Molina, M. I., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

• 172

complete list of authors

• Rosberg, Christian R||Neshev, Dragomir N||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Mitchell, Arnan||Vicencio, Rodrigo A||Molina, Mario I||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

• August 2006

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 0912 Materials Engineering

PubMed Central ID

• 17026306

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.083901

start page

• 083901

volume

• 97

issue

• 8