Observation of light localization in modulated Bessel optical lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2825-2830

  Fischer, Robert ^a   Neshev, Dragomir N ^a   Lopez Aguayo, Servando ^a,b   Desyatnikov, Anton S ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; LIGHT; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

BESSEL OPTICAL LATTICES; NONLINEAR LOCALIZATION OF LIGHT; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; SINGLE-SITE STATES;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

EID: 33645543173     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002825     Document Type: Article

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