Optically induced Zener tunneling in one-dimensional lattices

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 790-792

  Fratalocchi, Andrea ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a   Brzdakiewicz, Kasia A ^b   Karpierz, Mirek A ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOQUET-BLOCH BAND TUNNELING; LANDAU-ZENER TUNNELING; OPTICAL IMPRESSION;

ACCELERATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVEGUIDES;

ARRAYS;

EID: 33645781548     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000790     Document Type: Article

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