Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 123904 (2004) [4 pages]

Observation of Vortex-Ring “Discrete” Solitons in 2D Photonic Lattices

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Jason W. Fleischer^1,2, Guy Bartal¹, Oren Cohen¹, Ofer Manela¹, Mordechai Segev¹, Jared Hudock², and Demetrios N. Christodoulides²
¹Physics Department, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
²School of Optics/CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816-2700, USA

Received 17 September 2003; published 25 March 2004

We present the experimental observation of both on-site and off-site vortex-ring solitons of unity topological charge in a nonlinear photonic lattice, along with a theoretical study of their propagation dynamics and stability.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.123904

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.123904

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42.65.–k

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 123904 (2004) [4 pages]

Observation of Vortex-Ring “Discrete” Solitons in 2D Photonic Lattices