Photonic Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark ladders in exponentially chirped Bragg gratings

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Wilkinson, P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRONS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; HAMILTONIANS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICS; OSCILLATIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CHIRPED BRAGG GRATINGS; PHOTONIC BANDS; PHOTONIC BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; WAVE VECTORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 41349086653     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.056616     Document Type: Article

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