2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2008.4551047
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We present the first experimental observation of nonlinear beam diffusion and formation of diffraction-managed solitons in periodically-curved arrays of coupled optical waveguides created using femtosecond laser writing in silica glass, and titanium indiffusion in LiNbO3 crystals.