Title

Self-trapping threshold in disordered nonlinear photonic lattices

Authors

Authors

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

Comments

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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

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ol.38.001518

Language

English

First Page

1518

Last Page

1520

WOS Identifier

WOS:000318425600053

ISSN

0146-9592

Recommended Citation

"Self-trapping threshold in disordered nonlinear photonic lattices" (2013). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 4451.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/4451