Dark and bright blocker soliton interaction in defocusing waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 11248-11255

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

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT INDUCED DEFECTS; OPTICAL LIGHT POWER; OPTICAL PROBE BEAM; PHASE INSENSITIVE INTERACTION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33751105533     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011248     Document Type: Article

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