Discrete self-focusing in nonlinear arrays of coupled waveguides
Demetrios N. ChristodoulidesDepartment of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015R. I. JosephDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Abstract
We show that a nonlinear array of coupled waveguides can exhibit discrete self-focusing that in the continuum approximation obeys the so-called nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This process has much in common with the biophysical model of Davydov.
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