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Mario I Molina1, Yaroslav V Kartashov, Lluis Torner
1Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. mmolina@uchile.cl
Abstract:
We study surface modes at the edge of a semi-infinite chirped photonic lattice in the framework of an effective discrete nonlinear model. We demonstrate that the lattice chirp can change dramatically the conditions for the mode localization near the surface, and we find numerically the families of discrete surface solitons in this case. Such solitons do not require any minimum power to exist provided the chirp parameter exceeds some critical value. We also analyze how the chirp modifies the interaction of a soliton with the lattice edge.
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