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Tunable soliton self-bending in optical lattices with nonlocal nonlinearity
Yaroslav V Kartashov1, Victor A Vysloukh, Lluis Torner
1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, and Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
Physical Review Letters
|November 5, 2004
Abstract:
We address the phenomenon of soliton self-bending in Kerr-type nonlocal nonlinear media with an imprinted transverse periodic modulation of the linear refractive index. We show that the imprinted optical lattice makes possible to control the mobility of soliton by varying the depth and the frequency of the linear refractive index modulation.