Tamm oscillations in semi-infinite nonlinear waveguide arrays.
We demonstrate the existence of nonlinear Tamm oscillations at the interface between a substrate and a one-dimensional waveguide array with either cubic or saturable, self-focusing or self-defocusing nonlinearity. Light is trapped in the vicinity of the array boundary due to the interplay between the repulsive edge potential and Bragg reflection inside the array. In the special case when this potential is linear these oscillations reduce themselves to surface Bloch oscillations.
Stepi
Milutin
M
Institute of Physics and Physical Technologies, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.
Smirnov
Eugene
E
Rüter
Christian E
CE
Kip
Detlef
D
Maluckov
Aleksandra
A
Hadzievski
Ljup O
LO