Abstract
Band-gap structure of periodic waveguide arrays is investigated in the linear and the nonlinear regimes. Excitation of array modes belonging to high bands is demonstrated. Floquet-Bloch solitons are demonstrated experimentally and shown to be a generalization of discrete solitons.
- Received 13 August 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.053902
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