%0 Journal Article
%T Surface multi-gap vector solitons
%A Ivan L. Garanovich
%A Andrey A. Sukhorukov
%A Yuri S. Kivshar
%A Mario Molina
%J Physics
%D 2006
%I arXiv
%R 10.1364/OE.14.004780
%X We analyze nonlinear collective effects near surfaces of semi-infinite periodic systems with multi-gap transmission spectra and introduce a novel concept of multi-gap surface solitons as mutually trapped surface states with the components associated with different spectral gaps. We find numerically discrete surface modes in semi-infinite binary waveguide arrays which can support simultaneously two types of discrete solitons, and analyze different multi-gap states including the soliton-induced waveguides with the guided modes from different gaps and composite vector solitons.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0604031v1