Self-induced Anderson localization and optical limiting in photonic crystal coupled cavity waveguides with Kerr nonlinearity

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Hai Ying ^a   Lan, Sheng ^a   Wu, Li Jun ^a   Guo, Qi ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Liu, Song Hao ^a   Lin, Xu Sheng ^b   Gopal, Achanta Venu ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; WAVEGUIDES;

IMPURITY BAND; OPTICAL LIMITERS; SELF-INDUCED ANDERSON LOCALIZATION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34249679741     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2742595     Document Type: Article

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