title: Incoherent multi-gap optical solitons in nonlinear photonic lattices.
abstract: We demonstrate numerically that partially incoherent light can be trapped in the spectral band gaps of a photonic lattice, creating partially incoherent multi-component spatial optical solitons in a self-defocusing nonlinear periodic medium. We find numerically such incoherent multi-gap optical solitons and discuss how to generate them in experiment by interfering incoherent light beams at the input of a nonlinear periodic medium.
authors.forename: Kristian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Motzek
authors.forename: Andrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sukhorukov
authors.forename: Friedemann
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: Yuri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kivshar