Optical solitons in PT-symmetric nonlinear couplers with gain and loss

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Alexeeva, N V ^a,b   Barashenkov, I V ^a,b,c   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOW FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR COUPLER; OPTICAL SOLITON; POWER SUPPLY; STABILITY PROPERTIES; SYMMETRIC COUPLERS; TEMPORAL SOLITONS; TWO-COMPONENT;

STABILITY; WAVEGUIDES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84863205415     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.063837     Document Type: Article

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