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

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

We study wave dynamics in honeycomb photonic lattices, and demonstrate the unique
phenomenon of conical diffraction around the singular diabolical (zero-effective-mass) …

We present a progress overview focused on the recent theoretical and experimental
advances in the area of soliton manipulation in optical lattices. Optical lattices offer the …

We put forward the existence of surface gap solitons at the interface between uniform media
and an optical lattice with defocusing nonlinearity. Such new type of solitons forms when the …

We analyze the existence, stability, and internal modes of gap solitons in nonlinear periodic
systems described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a sinusoidal potential, such …

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 …

We investigate nondiffractive propagation of electromagnetic radiation, including visible
light, through materials with a periodic space modulation of the refraction index, ie, through …

We investigate, experimentally and theoretically, light propagation in one-dimensional
waveguide arrays exhibiting a saturable self-defocusing nonlinearity. We demonstrate low …

Spin-1 spin-orbit-coupled spinor Bose-Einstein condensates have been realized in
experiment. We study spin-orbit-coupled spinor gap solitons in this experimentally realizable …