Self-trapping of polychromatic light in nonlinear periodic photonic structures

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 9873-9878

  Motzek, Kristian ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTONS; SOLITONS;

LIGHT LOCALIZATION; POLYCHROMATIC BEAMS; SELF TRAPPING; SPECTRAL GAPS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33750351289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009873     Document Type: Article

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