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Propagation of an Airy-Gaussian beam in defected photonic lattices

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We investigate numerically that a finite Airy-Gaussian (AiG) beam varies its trajectory and shape in defected photonic lattices. Propagation properties and beam self-bending are controlled with modulation depth and period of photonic lattices, positive and negative defects, beam distribution factor and nonlinearities. For positive defects, the pseudo-period oscillation and localization of the AiG beam may form under a certain condition, while the beam diffuses in negative defects. Moreover, the solitons may appear during the propagation when the self-focusing nonlinearity is introduced.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China (Grant No. 2016A030313747) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11547212).

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  1. School of Electro-mechanical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Zhiwei Shi & Yang Li

  2. School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, People’s Republic of China

    Jing Xue

  3. Department of Physics, Guangdong University of Education, Guangzhou, 510303, People’s Republic of China

    Xing Zhu & Huagang Li

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Shi, Z., Xue, J., Zhu, X. et al. Propagation of an Airy-Gaussian beam in defected photonic lattices. Appl. Phys. B 123, 159 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-017-6737-4

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