Waveguides and directional coupler induced by white-light photovoltaic dark spatial solitons

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1674-1678

  Lu, Yi ^a   Liu, Simin ^b   Zhang, Guoquan ^b   Guo, Ru ^b   Zhu, Nan ^b   Yang, Lisen ^c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INNER MONGOLIA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLER; PHOTOVOLTAIC DARK SPATIAL SOLITONS; PROBE LASER BEAM;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 10044227354     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001674     Document Type: Article

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