Spatiotemporal discrete surface solitons in binary waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10718-10724

  Mihalache, Dumitru ^a   Mazilu, Dumitru ^a   Kivshar, Yuri ^b   Lederer, Falk ^c  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; STABILITY;

SEMI-INFINITE BINARY ARRAY; SURFACE GAP LIGHT BULLETS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34548092206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010718     Document Type: Article

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