Observation of discrete solitons in lattices with second-order interaction

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2838-2840

  Szameit, Alexander ^a   Keil, Robert ^b   Dreisow, Felix ^b   Heinrich, Matthias ^b   Pertsch, Thomas ^b   Nolte, Stefan ^b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

DISCRETE SOLITON; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; INTERACTION STRENGTH; LATTICE SITES; SECOND-ORDER COUPLING; SECOND-ORDER INTERACTION; SOLITON FORMATION; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

SOLITONS;

EID: 70349227301     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.002838     Document Type: Article

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