Discrete diffraction and spatial gap solitons in photovoltaic LiNbO 3 waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4314-4324

  Chen, Feng ^a   Stepić, Milutin ^a   Rüter, Christian E ^a   Runde, Daniel ^a   Kip, Detlef ^a   Shandarov, Vladimir ^b   Manela, Ofer ^c   Segev, Mordechai ^c  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY OF CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RADIOELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

DISCRETE DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; SPATIAL GAP SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE;

EID: 21244459962     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004314     Document Type: Article

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