Wave propagation in waveguide arrays with alternating positive and negative couplings

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Efremidis, Nikolaos K ^a   Zhang, Peng ^b   Chen, Zhigang ^b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^c   Rüter, Christian E ^d   Kip, Detlef ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT WAVEGUIDES; BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; LATTICE SOLITONS; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

COUPLINGS; SOLITONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77952414512     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053817     Document Type: Article

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