Excitation of strongly confined scalar and vector self-trapped beams in one-dimensional arrays of Kerr-nonlinear channel waveguides

    Authors

    J. Meier; J. Hudock; D. N. Christodoulides; G. I. Stegeman; H. Y. Yang; G. Salamo; R. Morandotti; J. S. Aitchison;Y. Silberberg

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Opt. Soc. Am. B-Opt. Phys.

    Keywords

    SPATIAL SOLITONS; POLARIZATION INSTABILITY; DYNAMICS; ALGAAS; Optics

    Abstract

    The excitation and propagation of both scalar and vector optical waves in one-dimensional nonlinear arrays of channel waveguides was investigated both theoretically and experimentally. In this arrangement vector discrete solitons are also possible through the coexistence of two orthogonally polarized fields. At high input power levels a rapid collapse of the power back to the incidence channel occurred over a small power range for both scalar and vector inputs. (c) 2005 Optical Society of America.

    Journal Title

    Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics

    Volume

    22

    Issue/Number

    7

    Publication Date

    1-1-2005

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1432

    Last Page

    1436

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000230355400013

    ISSN

    0740-3224

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