Observation of multivortex solitons in photonic lattices. Academic Article

abstract

• We report on the first observation of topologically stable spatially localized multivortex solitons generated in optically induced hexagonal photonic lattices. We demonstrate that topological stabilization of such nonlinear localized states can be achieved through self-trapping of truncated two-dimensional Bloch waves and confirm our experimental results by numerical simulations of the beam propagation in weakly deformed lattice potentials in anisotropic photorefractive media.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Terhalle, B., Richter, T., Desyatnikov, A. S., Neshev, D. N., Krolikowski, W., Kaiser, F., Denz, C., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

• 69

complete list of authors

• Terhalle, Bernd||Richter, Tobias||Desyatnikov, Anton S||Neshev, Dragomir N||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Kaiser, Friedemann||Denz, Cornelia||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

• July 2008

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

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

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.013903

start page

• 013903

volume

• 101

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.101.013903