Stable propagation and all-optical switching in planar waveguide-antiwaveguide periodic structures

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 522-528

  Kaplan, Arkady ^a   Gisin, Boris V ^b   Malomed, Boris A ^b  

^a CeLight Inc   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

WAVEGUIDING (WG);

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0008862160     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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