Bragg-type soliton mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1576-1581

  Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^a   Vysloukh, Victor A ^b   Torner, Lluis ^a  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; LIGHT MODULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL LATTICES; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33144479771     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001576     Document Type: Article

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