Lahini Yoav, Frumker Eugene, Silberberg Yaron, Droulias Sotiris, Hizanidis Kyriakos, Morandotti Roberto, Christodoulides Demetrios N
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, the Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel.
Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Jan 12;98(2):023901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.023901. Epub 2007 Jan 10.
We present experimental evidence for the spontaneous formation of discrete X waves in AlGaAs waveguide arrays. This new family of optical waves has been excited, for the first time, by using the interplay between discrete diffraction and normal temporal dispersion, in the presence of Kerr nonlinearity. Our experimental results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions.