Nonlinear diffusion and self-trapping of light in diffraction-managed photonic lattices

Garanovich, Ivan L.; Sukhorukov, Andrey A.; Kivshar, Yuri S.; Szameit, Alexander; Dreisow, Felix; Pertsch, Thomas; Nolte, Stefan; Tuennermann, Andreas

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Nonlinear diffusion and self-trapping of light in diffraction-managed photonic lattices

Date

2007

Authors

Garanovich, Ivan L.

Sukhorukov, Andrey A.

Abstract

We study nonlinear propagation of light in diffraction-managed photonic lattices created with periodically-curved arrays of optical waveguides. We identify a novel regime of nonlinear light diffusion in self-collimating structures where linear diffraction is suppressed.