Observation of mutually trapped multiband optical breathers in waveguide arrays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 25 I, 2003, Pages 2539021-2539024

  Mandelik, D ^a   Eisenberg, H S ^a,c   Silberberg, Y ^a   Morandotti, R ^b,d   Aitchison, J S ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

OPTICAL BREATHERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0042267384     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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