Excitation of strongly confined scalar and vector self-trapped beams in one-dimensional arrays of Kerr-nonlinear channel waveguides

• DOI: 10.1364/josab.22.001432
• Publication Date: 2005-07-26T21:19:16Z
• Authors: Joachim Meier; Jared Hudock; Demetrios N. Chri...; George I. Stegeman; Haeyeon Yang; Greg Salamo; Roberto Morandotti; J. Stewart Aitchison; Yaron Silberberg
• Keywords: Optical power

The excitation and propagation of both scalar vector optical waves in one-dimensional nonlinear arrays channel waveguides was investigated theoretically experimentally. In this arrangement discrete solitons are also possible through the coexistence two orthogonally polarized fields. At high input power levels a rapid collapse back to incidence occurred over small range for inputs.