Observation of nonlinear surface waves in modulated waveguide arrays. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We describe theoretically and study experimentally nonlinear surface waves at the edge of a modulated waveguide array with a surface defect and a self-defocusing nonlinearity. We fabricate such structures in a LiNbO(3) crystal and demonstrate the beam switching to different output waveguides with a change of the light intensity due to nonlinear coupling between the linear surface modes supported by the array.

published proceedings

  • Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

  • Qi, X., Garanovich, I. L., Xu, Z., Sukhorukov, A. A., Krolikowski, W., Mitchell, A., ... Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Qi, Xinyuan||Garanovich, Ivan L||Xu, Zhiyong||Sukhorukov, Andrey A||Krolikowski, Wieslaw||Mitchell, Arnan||Zhang, Guoquan||Neshev, Dragomir N||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

  • September 2009