Polarization effects in birefringent Bragg gratings with a Kerr nonlinearity

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2521-2530

  Pereira, Suresh ^a   Sipe, John E ^a   Slusher, Richart E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

SOLITARY WAVES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0141788074     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002521     Document Type: Article

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