Abstract
We demonstrate self-trapping of singly- and doubly-charged vortices in a self-defocusing “backbone” photonic lattice. While the singly-charged vortex can evolve into a gap vortex soliton, the doubly-charged tends to turn into quasi-vortex or quadrupole structure.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Anna Bezryadina, Eugenia Eugenieva, Anita Fors, Jingjun Xu, and Zhigang Chen
QFB4 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO:FS) 2006
Igor Makasyuk, Anna Bezryadina, and Zhigang Chen
FThO4 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2005
Elena A. Ostrovskaya and Yuri S. Kivshar
ITuE3 International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) 2004