Stabilization of counterpropagating solitons by photonic lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 6279-6292

  Koke, Sebastian ^a   Träger, Denis ^a   Jander, Philip ^a   Michael, Chen ^b   Neshey, Dragomir N ^b   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b   Denz, Cornelia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS;

COUNTERPROPAGATING PHOTOREFRACTIVE SPATIAL SOLITONS; COUNTERPROPAGATING SOLITONS; PHOTONIC LATTICES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34248553627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006279     Document Type: Article

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