Modern nanotechnology allows one to scale down various important devices (sensors,
chips, fibers, etc.) and thus opens up new horizons for their applications. The efficiency of …

Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating
compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses …

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 …

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

In the course of the past several years, a new level of understanding has been achieved
about conditions for the existence, stability, and generation of spatiotemporal optical …

For anyone looking to understand photonic crystals, this systematic, rigorous, and
pedagogical introduction is a must. Here you'll find intuitive analytical and semi-analytical …

We predict that photonic moiré patterns created by two mutually twisted periodic sublattices
in quadratic nonlinear media allow the formation of parametric solitons under conditions that …

A new numerical scheme for computing self-localized states—or solitons—of nonlinear
waveguides is proposed. The idea behind the method is to transform the underlying …

We report the first observation of discrete optical surface solitons at the interface between a
nonlinear self-focusing waveguide lattice and a continuous medium. The effect of power on …