Incoherent modulation instability in a nonlinear photonic lattice

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4623-4633

  Jablan, Marinko ^a   Buljan, Hrvoje ^a   Manela, Ofer ^b   Bartal, Guy ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION;

DIFFRACTION CURVE; MODULATION INSTABILITY (MI); STATIONARY BEAM;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34247253339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004623     Document Type: Article

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