Temporal tweezing of light through the trapping and manipulation of temporal cavity solitons

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jang, Jae K ^a   Erkintalo, Miro ^a   Coen, Stéphane ^a   Murdoch, Stuart G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LASER; LIGHT; MODULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PATTERN GENERATOR; PREDICTION;

EID: 84933054937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8370     Document Type: Article

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