All-optical Landau-Zener tunneling in waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2021-2026

  Fratalocchi, Andrea ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

OPTICAL TUNNELING; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644779750     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002021     Document Type: Article

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