Spatial photonics in nonlinear waveguide arrays.

@article{Fleischer2005SpatialPI,
  title={Spatial photonics in nonlinear waveguide arrays.},
  author={Jason W. Fleischer and Guy Bartal and Oren Cohen and Tal Schwartz and Ofer Manela and Barak Freedman and Mordechai Segev and Hrvoje Buljan and Nikolaos K. Efremidis},
  journal={Optics express},
  year={2005},
  volume={13 6},
  pages={
          1780-96
        }
}
The recent proposal of optical induction for producing nonlinear photonic lattices has revolutionized the study of nonlinear waves in waveguide arrays. In particular, it enabled the first observation of (2+1) dimensional lattice solitons, which were the first 2D solitons observed in any nonlinear periodic system in nature. Since then, progress has been rapid, with many fundamental discoveries made within the past two years. Here, we review our theoretical and experimental contributions to this… 
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