Nonlinear diffusion and beam self-trapping in diffraction-managed waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9547-9552

  Garanovich, Ivan L ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DIFFRACTION; DIFFUSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; SOLITONS;

DIFFRACTION-MANAGED SOLITONS; INPUT POWER; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; SELF-COLLIMATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34547478893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009547     Document Type: Article

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