All-optical switching and multistability in photonic structures with liquid crystal defects

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 25, 2008, Pages

  Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^a   Brasselet, Etienne ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING DEVICES; MULTI STABILITIES; NONLINEAR COUPLING; ONE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; ORIENTATIONAL NONLINEARITIES; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; SPECTRAL DOMAINS;

CRYSTAL DEFECTS;

EID: 46049108544     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2949076     Document Type: Article

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