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Optics Communications

Classical analogues to quantum nonlinear coherent states in photonic lattices

Armando Pérez-Leija, H. M. Moya-Cessa, Francisco Soto‐Eguibar, Omar Aguilar Loreto, Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Published Dec 29, 2010• 10 citations
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10.1016/j.optcom.2010.12.005

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