Phason dynamics in nonlinear photonic quasicrystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 776-781

  Freedman, Barak ^a   Lifshitz, Ron ^b   Fleischer, Jason W ^c   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; STRAIN;

NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL INDUCTION; PHASON DYNAMICS;

QUASICRYSTALS;

EID: 34848832987     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1981     Document Type: Article

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