Excitation of strongly confined scalar and vector self-trapped beams in one-dimensional arrays of Kerr-nonlinear channel waveguides

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1432-1436

  Meier, Joachim ^a   Hudock, Jared ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Stegeman, George I ^a   Yang, Haeyeon ^b   Salamo, Greg ^b   Morandotti, Roberto ^c   Aitchison, J Stewart ^d   Silberberg, Yaron ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SOLITONS;

KERR NONLINEAR CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; SCALAR DISCRETE SOLITONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 22944485294     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001432     Document Type: Article

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