Self-trapping threshold in disordered nonlinear photonic lattices

    Authors

    U. Naether; M. Heinrich; Y. Lahini; S. Nolte; R. A. Vicencio; M. I. Molina;A. Szameit

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    WRITTEN WAVE-GUIDES; SCHRODINGER-EQUATION; DISCRETE; LOCALIZATION; SYSTEMS; Optics

    Abstract

    We investigate numerically and experimentally the influence of coupling disorder on the self-trapping dynamics in nonlinear one-dimensional optical waveguide arrays. The existence of a lower and upper bound of the effective average propagation constant allows for a generalized definition of the threshold power for the onset of soliton localization. When compared to perfectly ordered systems, this threshold is found to decrease in the presence of coupling disorder. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    38

    Issue/Number

    9

    Publication Date

    1-1-2013

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1518

    Last Page

    1520

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000318425600053

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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