Abstract
We report the first observation of two-dimensional surface solitons at the first bandgap with a self-defocusing nonlinearity and at the semi-infinite gap with a self- focusing nonlinearity. Experimental results are in agreement with theoretical predictions.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
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