Discrete solitons in nonlinear zigzag optical waveguide arrays with tailored diffraction properties

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

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2002, Pages

  Efremidis, Nikos K ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DIFFRACTION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT FUNCTIONAL OPERATIONS; SWITCHING JUNCTIONS;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 41349108250     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.056607     Document Type: Article

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