Spatial bright-dark solitons in transversely magnetized coupled waveguides

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 220-227

  Boardman, A D ^a   Xie, M ^a   Xie, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT VELOCITY; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

MAGNETOOPTIC WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 13344275836     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.000220     Document Type: Article

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