Soliton-like pulse propagation and second harmonic generation in waveguides with second-order optical nonlinearities

AEU-Archiv fur Elektronik und Ubertragungstechnik

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 77-86

  Schiek, Roland ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cascaded nonlinearity; Nonlinear optics; Second harmonic generation; Solitons

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; SOLITONS;

CASCADED NONLINEARITY; PARAMETRIC WAVE MIXING; SECOND ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; SOLITON LIKE PULSE PROPAGATION;

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 0031098818     PISSN: 00011096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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