Defect solitons in parity-time periodic potentials

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4030-4035

  Wang, Hang ^a   Wang, Jiandong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS;

NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PERIODIC POTENTIALS; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79952140381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004030     Document Type: Article

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