Strong Spatiotemporal Localization in a Silica Nonlinear Waveguide Array
- 24 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 91 (22), 223901
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.91.223901
Abstract
We investigate the propagation of short, intense laser pulses in arrays of coupled silica waveguides, in the anomalous dispersion regime. The nonlinearity induces trapping of the pulse in a single waveguide, over a wide range of input parameters. A sharp transition is observed for single waveguide excitation, from strong diffraction at low powers to strong localization at high powers.Keywords
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