Light-bullet routing and control with planar waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11671-11682

  Williams, Matthew O ^a   McGrath, Colin W ^a   Kutz, J Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPLETE CONTROL; ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY; GAIN DYNAMICS; LIGHT BULLET; MODELOCKING; PHOTONICS APPLICATIONS; PHOTONICS DEVICES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; SELF-STARTING; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; SPATIAL MODES; THREE DIMENSIONS;

PROJECTILES;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77952860939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011671     Document Type: Article

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