Spatial Mode-Locking of Light Bullets in Planar Waveguide Arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18320-18329

  Williams, Matthew O ^a   Kutz, J Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

CONCEPT OF TIME; GLOBAL ATTRACTOR; LOCALIZED STATE; MULTI-PULSE SOLUTIONS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; TIME-PERIODIC SOLUTIONS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349679292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018320     Document Type: Article

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