Meier J, Stegeman G I, Christodoulides D N, Silberberg Y, Morandotti R, Yang H, Salamo G, Sorel M, Aitchison J S
College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
Opt Lett. 2005 May 1;30(9):1027-9. doi: 10.1364/ol.30.001027.
We investigate experimentally and numerically the interaction of a highly localized, single-channel discrete soliton (blocker) with a wide, tilted beam in a one-dimensional AlGaAs array. In agreement with theory the blocker is observed to discretely shift its position by multiple channels, depending on the intensity and relative phase of the tilted beam.