Discrete vector solitons in kerr nonlinear waveguide arrays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Meier, Joachim ^a   Hudock, Jared ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios ^a   Stegeman, George ^a   Silberberg, Y ^b   Morandotti, R ^c   Aitchison, J S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFRACTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENERGY GAP; GRAPH THEORY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; KERR NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDE ARRAY; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION EFFECT; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0242425670     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.143907     Document Type: Article

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