Discrete solitons and soliton-induced dislocations in partially coherent photonic lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Martin, Hector ^a   Eugenieva, Eugenia D ^a,c   Chen, Zhigang ^a,d   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; LATTICE CONSTANTS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; SOLITONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DISCRETE SOLITONS; GAUSSIAN BEAM SPLIT; PHOTONIC LATTICES; SOLITON-INDUCED DISLOCATIONS;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS);

EID: 2342575501     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.123902     Document Type: Article

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