Beam dynamics in a double-channel waveguide with gain and loss

Romanian Reports in Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 4 SUPPL, 2012, Pages 1271-1282

  Li, Pengfei ^a   Li, Rujiang ^a   Li, Lu ^a  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beam dynamics; Double channel waveguide; Gain and loss effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878979626     PISSN: 12211451     EISSN: 18418759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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