The mechanism of the polarizational mode instability in birefringent fiber optics

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1351-1373

  Li, Yi A ^a   Promislow, Keith ^b  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dirichlet expansion; Evans function; Polarization mode instability; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034347554     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141099349966     Document Type: Article

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