Nonlinear localized states in the vicinity of topological defects in waveguide arrays

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Heinrich, Matthias ^a   Keil, Robert ^a   Dreisow, Felix ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b   Nolte, Stefan ^a,b   Szameit, Alexander ^a,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETUNED; DISCRETE SPATIAL SOLITONS; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; LINEAR BOUNDS; LOCALIZED STATE; SPATIAL SOLITONS; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

DEFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 78650104634     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113020     Document Type: Article

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