title: Observation of staggered surface solitary waves in one-dimensional waveguide arrays.
abstract: The observation of nonlinear staggered surface states at the interface between a substrate and a one-dimensional self-defocusing nonlinear waveguide array is reported. Launching of staggered input beams of different power in the first channel of the array results in formation of localized structures in different channels. Our experimental results are confirmed numerically.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics and Physical Technologies, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Smirnov
authors.forename: Milutin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stepić
authors.forename: Christian E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Rüter
authors.forename: Detlef
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kip
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Shandarov