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Observation of localized modes at phase slips in two-dimensional photonic lattices

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 نشر من قبل Mario I. Molina
 تاريخ النشر 2010
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We study experimentally light localization at phase-slip waveguides and at the intersection of phase-slips in a two-dimensional (2D) square photonic lattice. Such system allows to observe a variety of effects, including the existence of spatially localized modes for low powers, the generation of strongly localized states in the form of discrete bulk and surface solitons, as well as a crossover between one-dimensional (1D) and 2D localization.



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