title: An optochemically organized nonlinear waveguide lattice with primitive cubic symmetry.
abstract: We describe the first example of a primitive cubic lattice assembled spontaneously from three mutually orthogonal and intersecting arrays of cylindrical, multimode waveguides. The lattice is generated in a single, room-temperature step with separate (mutually incoherent) incandescent light bulbs. To demonstrate its potential as a nonlinear photonic lattice, we generated a self-trapped lattice beam of incoherent white light. These two findings open entirely new experimental opportunities to study the behavior of spatially and temporally incoherent, polychromatic lattice solitons in 3-D Bravais lattices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4L8, Canada.
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Ponte
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Welch
authors.forename: Kalaichelvi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saravanamuttu
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008029:Lighting / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*