A full vectorial model for pulse propagation in emerging waveguides with subwavelength structures part I: Kerr nonlinearity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2298-2318

  Shahraam Afshar, V ^a   Monro, Tanya M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; KERR NONLINEARITY; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR PULSE PROPAGATION; PULSE PROPAGATION; STANDARD DEFINITIONS; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES;

WAVEGUIDES;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60549116702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002298     Document Type: Article

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