Controlling synchronization in large laser networks

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Nixon, Micha ^a   Fridman, Moti ^a   Ronen, Eitan ^a   Friesem, Asher A ^a   Davidson, Nir ^a   Kanter, Ido ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED LASERS; COUPLING DELAYS; GREATEST COMMON DIVISORS; HOMOGENEOUS NETWORK; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; SYNCHRONIZED CLUSTERS; TUNABLE COUPLING;

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 84861645482     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.214101     Document Type: Article

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