Bistability, multistability and non-reciprocal light propagation in Thue-Morse multilayered structures

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Grigoriev, Victor ^a   Biancalana, Fabio ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; BI-STABILITY; COUPLED RESONATOR; GENERATION NUMBERS; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; MULTISTABILITY; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; OPTICAL DIODES; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; PUMP SIGNAL; QUALITATIVE FEATURES; QUASI-PERIODIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; THUE-MORSE; THUE-MORSE SEQUENCE;

LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77953048794     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/5/053041     Document Type: Article

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