Pulse reshaping in photonic crystal waveguides and microcavities with Kerr nonlinearity: Critical issues for all-optical switching

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Vujic, Dragan ^a   John, Sajeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERR-RESPONSE MODELS; PULSE TRANSMISSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 27144521525     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.013807     Document Type: Article

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