Meier Joachim, Stegeman George I, Silberberg Y, Morandotti R, Aitchison J S
CREOL/School of Optics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Aug 27;93(9):093903. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.093903. Epub 2004 Aug 26.
We report our investigation of Kerr nonlinear beam interactions in discrete systems. The influence of power and the relative phase between two Gaussian shaped beams was investigated in detail by performing numerical simulations of the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation and comparing the results with experiments done in AlGaAs waveguide arrays. Good agreement between theory and experiment was obtained.