Gap solitons in grating superstructures

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 7767-7777

  Mayteevarunyoo, Thawatchai ^a   Malomed, Boris A ^b  

^a MAHANAKORN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; MODULATION; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

BOUND STATE; DOUBLE PEAK; GAP SOLITON; GENERIC MODELING; NEGATIVE FREQUENCY; PERIODIC MODULATION; PERIODIC VARIATION; SELF TRAPPING;

CHIRP MODULATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 44649084276     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007767     Document Type: Article

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