Nonlocal surface-wave solitons.
We demonstrate, experimentally and theoretically, surface-wave solitons occurring at the interface between a dielectric medium (air) and a nonlinear material with a very long-range nonlocal response. These surface solitons are always attracted toward the surface, and unlike their Kerr-like counterparts, they do not exhibit a power threshold.
Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Barak
B
Alfassi
Carmel
C
Rotschild
Ofer
O
Manela
Mordechai
M
Segev
Demetrios N
DN
Christodoulides