2009/01/21 by Alexander Szameit, A. Szameit, Y. V. Kartashov +15
Engineering · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Condensed matter physics #Curse of dimensionality #Excitation #Lattice (music) #Mathematics #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlinear system #Optics #Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Soliton #Waveguide #nlin.PS #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.063902
published as Physical Review Letters 102, 063902 (2009) · 14 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letters
arxiv created 2009/01/21 · openalex publication_date 2009/02/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We reveal and observe experimentally significant modifications undertaken by discrete solitons in waveguide lattices upon the continuous transformation of the lattice structure from one-dimensional to two-dimensional. Light evolution and soliton excitation in arrays with a gradually increasing number of rows are investigated, yielding solitons with an effective reduced dimensionality residing at the edge and in the bulk of the lattice.