Band-Gap Structure of Waveguide Arrays and Excitation of Floquet-Bloch Solitons

Citation:

D. Mandelik, Eisenberg, H. S, Silberberg, Y. , Morandotti, R. , and Aitchison, J. S. 2003. “Band-Gap Structure Of Waveguide Arrays And Excitation Of Floquet-Bloch Solitons”. Phys. Rev. Lett., 90, Pp. 053902. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.053902.

Abstract:

Band-gap structure of periodic waveguide arrays is investigated in the linear and the nonlinear regimes. Excitation of array modes belonging to high bands is demonstrated. Floquet-Bloch solitons are demonstrated experimentally and shown to be a generalization of discrete solitons.

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Publisher: American Physical Society