Observation of mutually trapped multiband optical breathers in waveguide arrays.
Multiphoton fluorescence is used for the direct observation of a new class of breathers in waveguide arrays, which are a coherent superposition of Floquet-Bloch solitons of different bands. These Floquet-Bloch breathers oscillate along their spatial propagation axis, and possess several novel properties. Some behavior of these breathers is readily understood intuitively in terms of the band structure of the waveguide array and the properties of discrete solitons.
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Department of Physics of Complex Systems, the Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel. daniel.mandelik@weizmann.ac.il
Eisenberg
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Silberberg
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Morandotti
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Aitchison
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