Minimizing bending losses in two-dimensional discrete soliton networks

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 1876-1878

  Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Eugenieva, Eugenia D ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING LOSSES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 0141484577     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001876     Document Type: Article

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