Abstract
We demonstrate two-dimensional gap solitons/soliton-trains by single-beam on-axis excitation in a self-defocusing “backbone” photonic lattice. Interferograms and k- space spectra indicate staggered structure of the gap solitons arising from M-symmetry points of the first Bloch band.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
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