Bloch modes and self-localized waveguides in nonlinear photonic crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 613-619

  Maes, Björn ^a   Bienstman, Peter ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS;

BLOCH MODES; GAP SOLITONS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 17444426009     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.000613     Document Type: Article

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