Defect solitons in parity-time symmetric superlattices

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11457-11462

  Lu, Zhien ^a   Zhang, Zhi Ming ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

DEFECT SOLITONS; KERR NONLINEARITY; PT SYMMETRIES; RESEARCH RESULTS; SYMMETRICAL POTENTIAL; ZERO DEFECTS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 79958193828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011457     Document Type: Article

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