Interlaced linear-nonlinear optical waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18296-18311

  Hizanidis, Kyriakos ^a   Kominis, Yannis ^a   Efremidis, Nikolaos K ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; ENERGY GAP; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

DISCRETE EQUATIONS; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; FOCUSING AND DEFOCUSING NONLINEARITIES; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR LATTICES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; PROPAGATION DYNAMICS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 55549100632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018296     Document Type: Article

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