Abstract
A parabolically longitudinally bending waveguide array imprinted into thermal nonlinear media is found to support the localized stationary solitons. The localization results from the suppression of a curvature effect by the nonlinearity with an infinite-range nonlocality. The localization criterion is given analytically. Solitons propagate stably along a curved trajectory without bending loss, and their locations are significantly influenced by the waveguide curvature. These solitons represent the first example of stationary localized solitons encountered in curved waveguides.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 584-586 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 23 Feb 2009 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2009 |
