Parity-time synthetic photonic lattices

Nature

Volumn 488, Issue 7410, 2012, Pages 167-171

  Regensburger, Alois ^a,b   Bersch, Christoph ^a,b   Miri, Mohammad Ali ^c   Onishchukov, Georgy ^b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^c   Peschel, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; INDEX METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; RESEARCH WORK;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIGHT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84864684461     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11298     Document Type: Article

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