Defect solitons in kagome optical lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 20786-20792

  Zhu, Xing ^a   Wang, Hong ^a,b   Zheng, Li Xian ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; DEFECTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS;

DEFECT DEPTH; EXISTENCE AND STABILITY; HIGH-POWER; LOW POWER; OPTICAL LATTICES; SATURABLE NONLINEARITY; STABLE REGION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 77957973685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020786     Document Type: Article

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