title: Observation of discrete surface solitons.
abstract: We report the first observation of discrete optical surface solitons at the interface between a nonlinear self-focusing waveguide lattice and a continuous medium. The effect of power on the localization process of these optical self-trapped states at the edge of an AlGaAs waveguide array is investigated in detail. Our experimental results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions.
authors.affiliation: College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suntsov
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Makris
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Christodoulides
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Stegeman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haché
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Morandotti
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salamo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sorel