Discrete solitons in photorefractive optically induced photonic lattices

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 5-

  Efremidis, Nikos K ^a   Sears, Suzanne ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Fleischer, Jason W ^b,c   Segev, Mordechai ^b,c  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DISCRETE SOLITONS (DS); OPTICAL NETWORKS; PHOTONIC LATTICES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS;

ANISOTROPY; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE;

EID: 41349114570     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.046602     Document Type: Article

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