Self-imaging and modulational instability in an array of periodically curved waveguides

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 2137-2139

  Longhi, Stefano ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROPAGATION REGIME; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; SELF-IMAGING;

ARRAYS; ELECTRONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 24344458161     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.002137     Document Type: Article

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