title: Raman gap solitons
abstract: We show that an intense pump pulse, detuned far from the Bragg resonance of a nonlinear periodic structure, can excite a gap soliton at a wavelength within the band gap that corresponds to the Raman shift of the medium. This Raman gap soliton is a stable, long-lived, quasistationary excitation that exists within the grating even after the pump pulse has passed. We find both stationary solitons as well as slow Raman gap solitons with velocities as low as 1% of the speed of light. The predicted phenomena should be observable in fiber Bragg gratings and other nonlinear photonic band gap structures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 1301 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122, USA.
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Winful
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Perlin