Demonstration of surface soliton arrays at the edge of a two-dimensional photonic lattice.
We demonstrate surface soliton arrays at the interface between a homogeneous medium and an optically induced two-dimensional semi-infinite photonic lattice. These are nonlinear Tamm-like surface states localized in one but extended periodically in the other transverse dimension. Both in-phase and staggered out-of-phase soliton arrays are observed, and the experimental results are corroborated by numerical simulations.
Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA.
Xiaosheng
X
Wang
Alex
A
Samodurov
Zhigang
Z
Chen