Multi-stable solitons in PT-symmetric optical lattices

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 16823-16831

  Li, Chunyan ^a   Liu, Haidong ^a   Dong, Liangwei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; STABILIZATION;

EXISTENCE AND STABILITY; FINITE GAPS; GEOMETRICAL SYMMETRIES; IMAGINARY PARTS; MULTISTABLE; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL SOLITON; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; PROPAGATION SIMULATION; SHARP CONTRAST;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84864152749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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