Unidirectional optical Bloch oscillations in asymmetric waveguide arrays

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4359-4361

  Kumar, Pradeep ^a   Levy, Miguel ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDES; BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; COVER LAYERS; DEPHASING; INDEX CONTRASTS; MODEL SYSTEM; NONRECIPROCITY; PRACTICAL REALIZATIONS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

SILICON COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

EID: 82255193286     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.004359     Document Type: Article

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