Optical snakes and ladders: Dispersion and nonlinearity in microcoil resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 16247-16254

  Broderick, N G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

BISTABLES; HIGH-Q RESONATORS; LINEAR FEATURE; LINEAR PROPERTIES; MICROCOIL; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NONLINEAR RESONATORS; SNAKES AND LADDERS;

RESONATORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSICS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 54749093603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016247     Document Type: Article

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