Stable all-optical limiting in nonlinear periodic structures. I. Analysis

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-53

  Pelinovsky, Dmitry ^a   Sears, Jason ^b   Brzozowski, Lukasz ^b   Sargent, Edward H ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL MULTISTABILITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0002574183     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000043     Document Type: Article

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