Collisions of orthogonally polarized spatial solitons in AlGaAs slab waveguides

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-62

  Schauer, Adrian ^a   Mel'nikov, Igor V ^a,b   Aitchison, J Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SOLITONS;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; REFRACTIVE ANISOTROPY; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SPATIAL SOLITON COLLISIONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0347268949     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000057     Document Type: Article

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