Observation of modulational instability in discrete media with self-defocusing nonlinearity

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-249

  Stepić, Milutin ^a   Wirth, Christian ^a   Rüter, Christian E ^a   Kip, Detlef ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; MODULATION INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR BEAM PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC LATTICE;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33644560327     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000247     Document Type: Article

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