Nonlinear optical beam interactions in waveguide arrays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Meier, Joachim ^a   Stegeman, George I ^a   Silberberg, Y ^b   Morandotti, R ^c   Aitchison, J S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMAS; SOLITONS;

BULK MEDIA; DISCRETE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 19544391050     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.093903     Document Type: Article

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