Abstract
Optical gap solitons can couple to acoustic waves through electrostriction, giving rise to “gap-acoustic” solitons (GASs). We show that supersonic GASs are unstable, which results in changes in speed, and ultimately very slow (subsonic) light.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
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