Soliton control in modulated optically-induced photonic lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5704-5710

  Garanovich, Ivan L ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

INTERFERING BEAMS; OPTICALLY-INDUCED PHOTONIC LATTICES; RESONANT WAVE MIXING; SOLITON CONTROL;

SOLITONS;

EID: 23744516568     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.005704     Document Type: Article

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