European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC)

An integrated saturable absorber employing spatial solitons

James Stewart Aitchison, A. Villeneuve, Jin U Kang, P. G. J. Wigley, G. I. Stegeman

Published Aug 24, 2005• 0 citations

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DOI: 10.1109/eqec.1994.698493

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