Optical transitions and Rabi oscillations in waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10309-10314

  Makris, K G ^a   Christodoulides, D N ^a   Peleg, O ^b   Segev, M ^b   Kip, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; PHASE MATCHING; WAVEGUIDES;

DIRECT POWER TRANSFER; FLOQUET-BLOCH MODE; LATTICE SOLITONS; PERIODIC OSCILLATION; PHASE MATCHING CONDITIONS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; RABI OSCILLATIONS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 47249093246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010309     Document Type: Article

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