Wide beam stabilities and instabilities in one dimensional arrays of Kerr-nonlinear channel waveguides

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-84

  Meier, J ^a   Christodoulides, D N ^a   Stegeman, G I ^a   Yang, H ^b   Salamo, G ^b   Morandotti, R ^c   Aitchison, J S ^d   Silberberg, Y ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Discrete nonlinear optics; Modulation instability; Solitons

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLITONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; DISCRETE NONLINEAR OPTICS; KERR NONLINEARITY; MODULATION INSTABILITY;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 22144432602     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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