Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Express
Keywords
NONLINEAR MEDIA; WAVE-GUIDES; ARRAYS; PROPAGATION; LATTICES; Optics
Abstract
We report the first observation of discrete quadratic surface solitons in self-focusing and defocusing periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide arrays. By operating on either side of the phase-matching condition and using the cascading nonlinearity, both in-phase and staggered discrete surface solitons were observed. This represents the first experimental demonstration of staggered/gap surface solitons at the interface of a semi-infinite nonlinear lattice. The experimental results were found to be in good agreement with theory.
Journal Title
Optics Express
Volume
14
Issue/Number
12
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
5508
Last Page
5516
WOS Identifier
ISSN
1094-4087
Recommended Citation
Siviloglou, Georgios A.; Makris, Konstantinos G.; Makris, G.; Iwanow, Robert; Schiek, Roland; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.; and Stegeman, George I., "Observation of discrete quadratic surface solitons" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 6594.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/6594
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