Elliptical discrete solitons supported by enhanced photorefractive anisotropy

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3865-3870

  Zhang, Peng ^a,b   Zhao, Jianlin ^a   Xiao, Fajun ^a   Lou, Cibo ^b   Xu, Jingjun ^b   Chen, Zhigang ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BIAS FIELDS; ELLIPTICAL DISCRETE SOLITONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE ANISOTROPY; TWO DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC LATTICE;

SOLITONS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 41149099216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.003865     Document Type: Article

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