Storage and steering of self-trapped discrete solitons in nonlinear waveguide arrays

Opt Lett. 1994 Mar 1;19(5):332-4. doi: 10.1364/ol.19.000332.

Abstract

An array of coupled nonlinear waveguides supports discrete soliton modes in which light is self-trapped in a few guides. We obtain an analytical description of these solitons and reveal that well-confined modes may be stably packed into the array. Power-controlled soliton steering may be achieved with linearly chirped solitons.