Abstract

We show that a nonlinear array of coupled waveguides can exhibit discrete self-focusing that in the continuum approximation obeys the so-called nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This process has much in common with the biophysical model of Davydov.

© 1988 Optical Society of America

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