Delay-tunable gap-soliton-based slow-light system

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 11987-11996

  Mok, Joe T ^a   De Sterke, C Martijn ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TUNING;

DELAY TUNABILITY; DETUNING; MONOTONIC DEPENDENCE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33845447843     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011987     Document Type: Article

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