Soliton switching and multi-frequency generation in a nonlinear photonic crystal fiber coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9417-9428

  Khan, Kaisar R ^a   Wu, Thomas X ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^b   Stegeman, George I ^b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLITONS;

COUPLING LENGTH; MULTI FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; SOLITON PULSE; SOLITON SWITCHING; SPECTRAL FEATURE; VECTOR FINITE ELEMENT METHODS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 46149108606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009417     Document Type: Article

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