Optical switching by coherent collision of spatial solitons

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 1403-1405

  Andrade Lucio, J A ^a   Alvarado Mendez B ^a   Rojas Laguna, R ^a   Ibarra Manzano, O G ^a   Torres Cisneros, M ^a   Jaime Rivas, R ^a   Kuzin, E A ^b  

^a Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica Eléctrica Y Electrónica FIMEE   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

SPATIAL OPTICAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0034245745     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20001018     Document Type: Article

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