Discrete nonlinear X-waves in waveguide arrays

Author

Lahini, Yoav ; Frumker, Eugene ; Silberberg, Yaron ; Droulias, Sotiris ; Hizanidis, Kyriakos ; Morandotti, Roberto ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. of Complex Syst., Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Rehovot

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present experimental evidence for the formation of nonlinear X-waves in AlGaAs waveguide arrays. These results agree with numerical simulations based on the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation with an appropriate temporal dispersion term.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; Schrodinger equation; aluminium compounds; nonlinear optics; optical waveguides; AlGaAs; discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation; discrete nonlinear X-waves; temporal dispersion term; waveguide arrays; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Schrodinger equation; Shape; (130.2790) Guided waves; (190.3270) Kerr effect; (190.4420) Nonlinear optics, transverse effects in; (190.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons; (230.4320) Nonlinear optical devices; (230.7370) Waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628875

Filename

4628875