Discrete nonlinear localization in femtosecond laser written waveguides in fused silica

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 10552-10570

  Szameit, Alexander ^a   Blömer, Dominik ^a   Burghoff, Jonas ^a   Schreiber, Thomas ^a   Pertsch, Thomas ^a   Nolte, Stefan ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b   Lederer, Falk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUSED SILICA; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SOLITONS;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; GUIDING PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR LOCALIZATIONS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 29244464296     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.010552     Document Type: Article

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