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Immobile gap-solitons in waveguide arrays

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MA1
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• Mandelik, Daniel; Morandotti, Roberto; Aitchison, Stewart; Silberberg, Yaron
• Bright and dark spatial gap-solitons are demonstrated in waveguide arrays. These gap-solitons travel across the array at zero transverse velocity, in complete analogy with stationary...

Dynamic band-gap solitons in nonlinear optically-induced lattices

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MA2
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• Desyatnikov, Anton S; Sukhorukov, Andrey A; Ostrovskaya, Elena A; Kivshar, Yuri S; Denz, Cornelia
• We describe optical solitons consisting of nonlinearly coupled periodic or quasi-periodic and localized components, and reveal a fundamental difference between moving solitons in...

Observation of vortex-ring “discrete” solitons in 2D photonic lattices

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MA3
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• Bartal, Guy; Fleischer, Jason W; Cohen, Oren; Manela, Ofer; Segev, Mordechai; Hudock, Jared; Christodoulides, Demetrios N
• We present the experimental observation of both on-site and off-site vortex ring solitons of unity topological charge in a nonlinear photonic lattice, along with a theoretical study of...

Observation of discrete vortex solitons

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MA4
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• Neshev, Dragomir N; Alexander, Tristram J; Ostrovskaya, Elena A; Kivshar, Yuri S; Martin, Hector; Chen, Zhigang
• We observe experimentally the formation of discrete vortex solitons in two- dimensional optically-induced photonic lattices and describe numerically their excitation and propagation.

Effects of disorder in a nonlinear fiber array

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MA5
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• Pertsch, Thomas; Peschel, Ulf; Kobelke, Jens; Schuster, Kay; Nolte, Stefan; Tünnermann, Andreas; Bartelt, Hartmut; Lederer, Falk
• We experimentally investigate the nonlinear field evolution in a disordered two-dimensional array of mutually interacting optical fibers. The diffusive propagation of linear fields is...

Discrete nematicons

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MA6
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• Fratalocchi, Andrea; Assanto, Gaetano; Brzdakiewicz, Kasia A; Karpierz, Miroslaw A
• We investigate discrete propagation of light in a voltage-tunable liquid crystal array of waveguides. This geometry, in conjunction with a reorientational response, allows to study...

Multi-channel discrete quadratic solitons in periodically poled lithium niobatewaveguide arrays

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MA7
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• Iwanow, Robert; Stegeman, George I; Schiek, Roland; Pertsch, Thomas; Lederer, Falk; Min, Yoohong; Sohler, Wolfgang
• We report the first observation of quadratic discrete solitons localized in multiple neighboring channels of one-dimensional PPLN waveguide arrays. Measured field profiles for discrete...

Two-dimensional optical discrete/lattice solitons

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MA8
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• Efremidis, Nikolaos K; Hudock, Jared; Christodoulides, Demetrios N; Fleischer, Jason W; Cohen, Oren; Segev, Mordechai
• We study families of 2D lattice solitons, and show that they are possible when their power level exceeds a critical threshold. In addition, gap lattice solitons exist when the lattice...

Experimental observation of transverse optical patterns in phase-coupled VCSEL arrays

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MB1
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• Dabbicco, Maurizio; Amato, Leonardo; Maggipinto, Tommaso; Brambilla, Massimo
• Pattern forming instabilities are observed in optically pumped, phase-coupled VCSEL arrays; global patterns with roll or hexagonal symmetry emerge in the field transverse profile....

Enhanced nonlinear optical response and all-optical switching in AlGaAs micro-ring resonators

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MB2
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• Boyd, Robert W; Heebner, John E; Lepeshkin, Nick; Schweinsberg, Aaron; Wicks, Gary W
• We have constructed and characterized photonic devices based on optical micro-ring resonators. Light is guided by epitaxially grown layers and by air-clad sidewalls. We describe the...

Characterization of cavity solitons in broad-area driven VCSELs below threshold

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MB3
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• Hachair, Xavier; Barland, S; Furfaro, Luca; Giudici, Massimo; Balle, Salvador; Tredicce, Jorge; Brambilla, Massimo; Maggipinto, Tommaso; Perrini, Ida M; Tissoni, Giovanna; Lugiato, Luigi A
• We show the generation of several cavity solitons in driven broad-area vertical-cavity semiconductor lasers below threshold. The switching process is analysed in details, and a...

Stationary conical waves in the presence of nonlinear absorption

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MB4
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• Porras, Miguel A; Parola, Alberto; Dubietis, Audrius; Di Trapani, Paolo
• Owing to nonlinear losses, conical waves outclass solitons in describing spontaneuous localization driven by self-focusing. Stationary solutions of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation...

Localized states in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with frequency-selective feedback

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MB5
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• Sondermann, Markus; Marino, Francesco; Jentsch, Karl F; Ackemann, Thorsten; Jaeger, Roland
• We report the experimental observation of bistable localized emission states in semiconductor devices without the need for a broad-area holding beam (vertical-cavity surface-emitting...

Resonant trapping in a photo-induced gap in wave-number: experiment and theory

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MB6
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• Van Simaeys, Gaetan; Coen, Stephane; Haelterman, Marc; Trillo, Stefano
• We investigate nonlinear propagation of two co-propagating modes linearly coupled by a photo-induced resonant traveling-wave grating. The observed grating-induced cancelation of modal...

Grating mediated waveguiding and holographic solitons

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MB7
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• Freedman, Barak; Cohen, Oren; Fleischer, Jason W; Segev, Mordechai; Christodoulides, Demetrios N
• We demonstrate experimentally a new method of waveguiding, relying on Bragg diffractions from a bell/trough shaped 1D grating, and arising from cross-phase modulation. This system,...

Frequency conversion in a nonlinear photonic quasi-crystal

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MB8
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• Bratfalean, Radu T; Broderick, Neil Gr; Gallo, Katia; Peacock, Anna C
• We present the first results of 2nd harmonic generation in a two dimensional Penrose pattern in lithium niobate. These results show the flexibility and potential for novel devices in...

Stimulated Raman scattering in kilowatt ytterbium-doped double-clad fiber lasers

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MC1
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• Wang, Yong; Xu, Chang-Qing
• Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) effect in kilowatt single-transverse-mode ytterbium-doped double-clad (YDDC) fiber lasers is numerically studied. Solutions to suppress the SRS in...

Nonlinear optical fiber loop mirror with feedback using high birefringence fiber in the loop

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MC10
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• Merchant, Clark A; Steele, Alan L
• The dynamics of a nonlinear optical fiber loop mirror with feedback using CW input and high birefringence fiber is examined. Results show dynamical behavior of the device can be...

Q parameter scaling in scalar and vector models with dominant signal-noise and noise-noise beating terms

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MC11
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• Eberhard, Marc A; Blow, Keith J
• The Q-parameter scales differently with the noise power for the signal-noise and the noise-noise beating terms in scalar and vector models. Some procedures for including noise in the...

Dispersion map influence in 160 Gbit/s single channel transmission

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• Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications (NLGW) 2004 paper: MC12
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• Cuenot, Benjamin
• Intrachannel non-linear effects are the source of degradation in 160 Gbit/s long-haul transmission. However, their impact can be reduced by an appropriate dispersion map and/or by...