Surface solitons in waveguide arrays: Analytical solutions

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10041-10051

  Kominis, Y ^a   Papadopoulos, A ^a   Hizanidis, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE STRUCTURE; WAVEGUIDES;

NONZERO SEMI-INFINITE BACKGROUNDS; PERIODIC NONLINEAR LATTICE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34547764859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010041     Document Type: Article

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