Subdiffractive discrete cavity solitons.

Full Abstract

We describe what we believe to be novel types of discrete cavity solitons in nonlinear waveguide arrays that are driven by an external holding beam. We demonstrate that a holding beam with a definite inclination drives the system in a subdiffractive regime and allows the formation of stable discrete cavity solitons. We predict the existence of both bright and dark moving midband discrete cavity solitons for an identical set of system parameters for both focusing and defocusing Kerr nonlinearities.

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Author/s: Egorov, O (O); Lederer, F (F); Staliunas, K (K);

Affiliation: Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany. oleg(-atsign-)pinet.uni-jena.de

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Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Optics letters (Opt Lett), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Aug; vol 32 (issue 15) : pp 2106-8

Dates: Created 2007/08/02; Completed 2007/10/30;

PMID: 17671551, status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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