Abstract
We demonstrate numerically and experimentally how the presence of so-called Topological Defects represented by junctions within otherwise periodical planar photonic lattices influences the formation of discrete solitons similar to conventional defects constituted by detuned waveguides.
© 2011 Optical Society of America
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