Control of planar nonlinear guided waves and spatial solitons with a left-handed medium

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Boardman, A D ^a   Egan, P ^a   Velasco, L ^a   King, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex waveguides; FDTD analysis; Left handed; Negative media; Polaritons; Spatial soliton

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPLEX WAVEGUIDES; FDTD ANALYSIS; LEFT-HANDED (LH) MATERIALS; NEGATIVE MEDIA; POLARITONS; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 24044484861     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/7/2/008     Document Type: Article

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