Ultra-sharp soliton switching in a directional coupler

Optics Communications

Volumn 159, Issue 4-6, 1999, Pages 215-220

  Valkering, Theo P ^a   Van Honschoten, Joost ^a   Hoekstra, Hugo J W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

All optical switching; Coupled nonlinear Schr dinger equations; Directional coupler; Soliton

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SOLITONS;

COUPLED NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER (CNLS) EQUATIONS;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0032712172     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00573-2     Document Type: Article

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