AlGaAs below half bandgap: A laboratory for spatial soliton physics

Pure and Applied Optics (Print edition) (United Kingdom)

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 583-594

  Kang, Jin U ^a   Stegeman, George I ^a   Villeneuve, Alain ^b   Aitchison, J Stewart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SOLITONS;

MANAKOV SOLITONS; OPTICAL SWITCHING; SPATIAL SOLITONS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC POLARIZATION MODE; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC POLARIZATION MODE;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 0030230611     PISSN: 09639659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0963-9659/5/5/012     Document Type: Article

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