Localized excitations in arrays of synchronized laser oscillators

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Rogister, Fabien ^a   Roy, Rajarshi ^b  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM EFFECTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SYNCHRONIZATION;

LASER OSCILLATORS; LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33847713733     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.104101     Document Type: Article

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