Suntsov S, Makris K G, Christodoulides D N, Stegeman G I, Haché A, Morandotti R, Yang H, Salamo G, Sorel M
College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Feb 17;96(6):063901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.063901. Epub 2006 Feb 13.
We report the first observation of discrete optical surface solitons at the interface between a nonlinear self-focusing waveguide lattice and a continuous medium. The effect of power on the localization process of these optical self-trapped states at the edge of an AlGaAs waveguide array is investigated in detail. Our experimental results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions.