Polarization dependent properties of waveguide arrays: Band-structure anomaly and high-band localizations

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1762-1773

  Lahini, Yoav ^a   Mandelik, Daniel ^a   Silberberg, Yaron ^a   Morandotti, Roberto ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; TRANSVERSE EFFECTS IN; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 17444421960     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001762     Document Type: Article

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