Spatial photonics in nonlinear waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1780-1796

  Fleischer, Jason W ^a   Bartal, Guy ^b   Cohen, Oren ^b   Schwartz, Tal ^b   Manela, Ofer ^b   Freedman, Barak ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^b   Buljan, Hrvoje ^c   Efremidis, Nikolaos K ^d  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; SOLITONS;

LINEAR TRANSMISSION BANDS; MODULATION INSTABILITY; RANDOM-PHASE LATTICE SOLITONS; VORTEX-RING SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 17444400499     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001780     Document Type: Article

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