Optical delay lines based on soliton propagation in photonic crystal coupled resonator optical waveguides

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 560-567

  Neokosmidis, Ioannis ^a   Kamalakis, Thomas ^a   Sphicopoulos, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Delay lines; Nonlinear wave propagation; Optical solitons

Indexed keywords

BIT RATES; CONTINUOUS WAVE PROPAGATION; COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; DELAY LINE; DESIGN EQUATION; HIGHER ORDER; HIGHER ORDER DISPERSION; NONLINEAR DISPERSION; NONLINEAR WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; OPTICAL SOLITON; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL COUPLED RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LENGTHS; SOLITON PEAK; SOLITON PROPAGATION; SOLITON STABILITY;

CRYSTAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLITONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 47249147246     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.898842     Document Type: Article

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