A comparative study of soliton switching in a two- and three-core coupler with TOD and IMD

Optik

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 390-394

  Sarma, Amarendra K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

Intermodal dispersion; Nonlinear directional coupler; Soliton; Third order dispersion

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; INTERMODAL DISPERSION; LINEAR CONFIGURATIONS; NONLINEAR DIRECTIONAL COUPLER; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SOLITON SWITCHING; SWITCHING CHARACTERISTICS; THIRD-ORDER DISPERSION; TRIANGULAR CONFIGURATIONS;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; SOLITONS;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 64649098029     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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