Surface multi-gap vector solitons

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4780-4785

  Garanovich, Ivan L ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a   Molina, Mario ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRAPS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BINARY WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; MULTI-GAP STATES; TRANSMISSION SPECTRA;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33744506175     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004780     Document Type: Article

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