One-dimensional spatial dark soliton-induced channel waveguides in lithium niobate crystal

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2273-2278

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Ma, Yanghua ^a   Zhao, Jianlin ^a   Yang, Dexing ^a   Xu, Honglai ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALS; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; SPATIAL DARK SOLITONS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE;

EID: 33744813791     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002273     Document Type: Article

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