Soliton percolation in random optical lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 12409-12417

  Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^a   Vysloukh, Victor A ^b   Torner, Lluis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; OPTIMIZATION; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

DISORDER-INDUCED TRANSITIONS; DISORDERED LATTICES; LIGHT PACKETS; OPTICAL LATTICES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34648846540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012409     Document Type: Article

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