Temporal solitons and pulse compression in photonic crystal waveguides

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 862-868

  Colman, P ^a,c   Husko, C ^a,b   Combrie S ^a   Sagnes, I ^c   Wong, C W ^b   De Rossi, A ^a  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHER-ORDER SOLITONS; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; LOW PULSE ENERGY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SMALL FOOTPRINTS; SOLITON PROPAGATION; TEMPORAL SOLITONS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

DISPERSION (WAVES); LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSE COMPRESSION; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 78649888461     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.261     Document Type: Article

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