Surface defect superlattice solitons

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2584-2588

  Chen, Wu He ^a,b   He, Ying Ji ^a   Wang, He Zhou ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTICAL BAND GAPS; SUPERLATTICES; SURFACE DEFECTS;

DEFECT INTENSITY; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; OPTICAL SUPERLLATICES; SEMI-INFINITE BANDGAP; SUPERLATTICE SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 35948948084     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002584     Document Type: Article

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