Discrete self-focusing in nonlinear arrays of coupled waveguides

Optics Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1988, Pages 794-796

  Christodoulides, D N ^a   Joseph, R I ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84975553137     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.13.000794     Document Type: Article

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