Discrete vector solitons in Kerr nonlinear waveguide arrays |
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Authors: | Meier Joachim Hudock Jared Christodoulides Demetrios Stegeman George Silberberg Y Morandotti R Aitchison J S |
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Institution: | CREOL/School of Optics, University of Central Florida, Orlando 32816, USA. |
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Abstract: | We report the first experimental observation of discrete vector solitons in AlGaAs nonlinear waveguide arrays. These self-trapped states are possible through the coexistence of two orthogonally polarized fields and are stable in spite of the presence of four-wave mixing effects. We demonstrate that at sufficiently high power levels the two polarizations lock into a highly localized vector discrete soliton that would have been otherwise impossible in the absence of either one of these two components. |
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