Controlled switching of discrete solitons in waveguide arrays

Abstract

We suggest an effective method for controlling nonlinear switching in arrays of weakly coupled optical waveguides. We demonstrate the digitized switching of a narrow input beam for up to eleven waveguides in the engineered waveguide arrays.

15 pages, four figures. Accepted in Optics Letters

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