Photonic band-gap inhibition of modulational instabilities

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25 I, 2004, Pages

  Gomila, Damià ^a   Zambrini, Roberta ^a   Oppo, Gian Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAVITY RESONATORS; CONDENSATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLEXING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS; STABILITY; SWITCHING; WAVEGUIDES;

MODULATION INSTABILITY (MI); NONLINEAR CAVITY; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 3543072880     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.253904     Document Type: Article

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