Observation of staggered surface solitary waves in one-dimensional waveguide arrays

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2338-2340

  Smirnov, Eugene ^a   Stepić, Milutin ^a   Rüter, Christian E ^a   Kip, Detlef ^a   Shandarov, Vladimir ^b  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY OF CONTROL SYSTEMS AND RADIOELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELF DEFOCUSSING; SURFACE SOLITARY WAVES; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

COHERENT LIGHT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVEGUIDES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33747789323     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.002338     Document Type: Article

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