Stable all-optical limiting in nonlinear periodic structures. III. Nonsolitonic pulse propagation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 695-705

  Ye, Winnie N ^a   Brzozowski, Lukasz ^a   Sargent, Edward H ^a   Pelinovsky, Dmitry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OSCILLATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0038385983     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.000695     Document Type: Article

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