Temporal soliton switching in a rectangular nonlinear directional coupler

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5133-5143

  Sala, Anca L ^a   Bagley, Brian G ^a   Deck, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUSED SILICA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS;

COUPLED-MODE THEORY; NONLINEAR DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS (NLDC);

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0033175351     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005133     Document Type: Article

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