Spatiotemporal discrete surface solitons in binary waveguide arrays

Dumitru Mihalache, Dumitru Mazilu, Yuri S. Kivshar, Falk Lederer
2007 Optics Express  
We study spatiotemporal solitons at the edge of a semi-infinite binary array of optical waveguides and, in particular, predict theoretically the existence of a novel type of surface soliton, the surface gap light bullets. We analyze the stability properties of these solitons in the framework of the continuous-discrete model of an array of two types of optical waveguides.
doi:10.1364/oe.15.010718 pmid:19547426 fatcat:xixeaqutifa4ba6bu5fxbfnx7m