Abstract
We report on light propagation in one-dimensional photorefractive waveguide arrays in LiNbO3 exhibiting a saturable defocusing nonlinearity. Low-intensity discrete diffraction and high-intensity formation of gap solitons arising from the 1st band are demonstrated.
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