Discretizing light behaviour in linear and nonlinear waveguide lattices

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6950, 2003, Pages 817-823

  Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Lederer, Falk ^b   Silberberg, Yaron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

DISCRETE SYSTEMS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

LIGHT; PHYSICS;

BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; FLOW; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0042968737     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01936     Document Type: Review

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