Anderson localization in optical waveguide arrays with off-diagonal coupling disorder

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13636-13646

  Martin, Lane ^a   Di Giuseppe, Giovanni ^a,b   Perez Leija, Armando ^a,c   Keil, Robert ^d   Dreisow, Felix ^d   Heinrich, Matthias ^d   Nolte, Stefan ^d   Szameit, Alexander ^e   Abouraddy, Ayman F ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Saleh, Bahaa E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA;

ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; ANDERSONS; BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; COUPLING PARAMETERS; DISCRETE DIFFRACTION; OFF-DIAGONAL DISORDER; ONE-DIMENSIONAL WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; PERIODIC ARRAYS; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; WAVE LOCALIZATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 79959907873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013636     Document Type: Article

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