Observation of topological transformations of optical vortices in two-dimensional photonic lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8317-8327

  Bezryadina, Anna ^a   Neshev, Dragomir N ^b   Desyatnikov, Anton S ^b   Young, Jack ^a   Chen, Zhigang ^a,c   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; TOPOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

LATTICE PERIODICITY; OPTICAL VORTICES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTONIC LATTICES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 33748427659     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008317     Document Type: Article

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