Bandgap lattices: Low index solitons and linear properties

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10571-10588

  Efremidis, Nikolaos K ^a   Hizanidis, Kyriakos ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFLECTION; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

BANDGAP LATTICES; LINEAR PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR REGIME; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 29244448656     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010571     Document Type: Article

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