A simple and efficient numerical method for nonlinear pulse propagation in N-core optical couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1077-1079

  Wang, Youfa ^a   Wang, WenFeng ^b,c  

^a AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (Singapore)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; Optical solitons; Split step Fourier method (SSFM); Waveguide couplers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

HIGHER ORDER DISPERSION; INTERMODAL DISPERSION EFFECT; NONLINEAR PULSE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SOLITONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; SPLIT-STEP FOURIER METHOD;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 1942500931     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.824671     Document Type: Article

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