Symmetry-breaking instabilities in perturbed optical lattices: Nonlinear nonreciprocity and macroscopic self-trapping

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Fratalocchi, Andrea ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

BLOCH BANDS; OPTICAL LATTICES; SYMMETRY-BREAKING INSTABILITIES; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 34547328131     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.063828     Document Type: Article

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