Two-dimensional soliton in cubic fs laser written waveguide arrays in fused silica

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 231-238

  Szameit, Alexander ^a   Burghoff, Jonas ^a   Pertsch, Thomas ^a   Nolte, Stefan ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b   Lederer, Falk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

LOCALIZATION; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33745473587     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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