Switching between bistable states of a soliton in a doubly inhomogeneously doped fiber coupler

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 897-900

  Kumar, Ajit ^a   Kurz, Thomas ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLITONS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL SWITCHING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0035637175     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.000897     Document Type: Article

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