Grating-mediated wave guiding and holographic solitons

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1349-1355

  Freedman, Barak ^a   Cohen, Oren ^a   Manela, Ofer ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Fleischer, Jason W ^b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SOLITONS; SUPERLATTICES;

GRATING MEDIATED WAVEGUIDE (GMW); HOLOGRAPHIC SOLITONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 22944481455     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001349     Document Type: Article

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