Dynamics and all-optical control of solitons at the interface of optical superlattices with spatially modulated nonlinearity

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8795-8801

  Huang, Hui Chang ^a   He, Ying Ji ^b   Liu, Yuan Zhi ^a   Wang, He Zhou ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG POLYTECHNIC NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; REFRACTION; SUPERLATTICES;

ALL-OPTICAL; ANGLE-DEPENDENT; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; OPTICAL SUPERLATTICE; REFRACTION INDEX;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79955411814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008795     Document Type: Article

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