Self-induced transparency and giant nonlinearity in doped photonic crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2066-2074

  Kurizki, Gershon ^a   Petrosyan, David ^a   Opatrny, Tomas ^b   Blaauboer, Miriam ^c   Malomed, Boris ^d  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; SOLITONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0141563706     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002066     Document Type: Article

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