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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 23(105)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.233905

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Phase Transitions of Nonlinear Waves in Quadratic Waveguide Arrays

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Abstract

We study two-color parametric nonlinear modes in waveguide arrays with a quadratic nonlinear response. We predict theoretically and observe experimentally a new type of phase transition manifested in an abrupt power-controlled change of the mode structure from unstaggered to staggered, due to the interplay of localization and synchronization in parametrically driven discrete systems.