Polychromatic dynamic localization in curved photonic lattices

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 271-275

  Szameit, Alexander ^a   Garanovich, Ivan L ^b   Heinrich, Matthias ^a   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^b   Dreisow, Felix ^a   Pertsch, Thomas ^a   Nolte, Stefan ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CHARGED PARTICLES; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTONICS; RESONANCE; SPIN DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DYNAMIC LOCALIZATION; MOLECULAR MAGNET; ONE-DIMENSIONAL LATTICE; PERIODIC POTENTIALS; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

EID: 63849098433     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1221     Document Type: Article

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