Interaction-induced localization of anomalously-diffracting nonlinear waves

We study experimentally the interactions between normal solitons and tilted beams in glass waveguide arrays. We find that as a tilted beam, traversing away from a normally propagating soliton, coincides with the self-defocusing regime of the array, it can be refocused and routed back into any of the intermediate sites due to the interaction, as a function of the initial phase difference. Numerically, distinct parameter regimes exhibiting this behavior of the interaction are identified.Comment: Physical Review Letters, in pres

Spatio-Temporal Effects In Nonlinear Discrete Media

In this paper, we will introduce the concept of discrete solitons and we will discuss some of their spatio-temporal dynamics, which leads to interesting consequences in both the fundamental and the applied domain © 2006 IEEE

Effect of the foreign phases on the crystallization and growth of magnetooptic garnets films

The crystallization of magnetooptic iron garnets Y<sup>3</sup>Fe<sup>5</sup>O<sup>12</sup>(YIG) and Ce<sup>1</sup>Y<sup>2</sup>Fe<sup>5</sup>O<sup>12</sup>(Ce-YIG) in thin films has been investigated. The parasitic phases were shown to have a negative impact on the crystalline structure