Light propagating in linear and nonlinear waveguide lattices exhibits behaviour
characteristic of that encountered in discrete systems. The diffraction properties of these …

We provide an overview of recent experimental and theoretical developments in the area of
optical discrete solitons. By nature, discrete solitons represent self-trapped wavepackets in …

In the last decade many important advances have taken place in the field of quantum optics,
with numerous potential applications. Ideal for graduate courses on quantum optics, this …

The current research into solitons and their use in fiber optic communications is very
important to the future of communications. Since the advent of computer networking and …

Over the last few years arrays of evanescently coupled waveguides have been brought into
focus as a particular representation of functionalized optical materials, in which the …

We review both theoretical and experimental advances in the recently emerged field of
modulated photonic lattices. These artificial periodic dielectric structures provide a powerful …

Engineered photonic waveguides have provided in the past decade an extremely rich
laboratory tool to visualize with optical waves the classic analogues of a wide variety of …

We experimentally demonstrate the occurrence of optical Bloch oscillations in a waveguide
array with linearly growing effective index of the individual guides. We monitored the output …

We report the observation of optical Bloch oscillations in waveguide arrays. The required
linear variation of the propagation constant across the thermo-optic polymer array was …

In this work, we discuss the resonance states of a quantum particle in a periodic potential
plus a static force. Originally, this problem was formulated for a crystal electron subject to a …