Ultrashort light pulses in photonic crystals in subdiffractive regimes

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1639-1645

  Loiko, Yurii ^a,b   Herrero, Ramon ^a   Staliunas, Kestutis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION; DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

HARMONIC MODE EXPANSION; SUBDIFFRACTIVE REGIME;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34548210357     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.001639     Document Type: Article

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