Vector discrete nonlinear surface waves

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7720-7725

  Hudock, Jared ^a   Suntsov, Sergiy ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Stegeman, George I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STABILITY; VECTORS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; MULTI-COMPONENT DISCRETE VECTORS; SURFACE STATES;

SURFACE WAVES;

EID: 30144444176     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007720     Document Type: Article

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