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Raman Gap Solitons in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals

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Nonlinear Photonic Crystals

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In this chapter we review some of our early work on nonlinear periodic structures and describe how stimulated Raman scattering in these structures makes possible the generation of stationary gap solitons and the operation of distributed feedback Raman lasers.

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Winful, H.G., Perlin, V.E. (2003). Raman Gap Solitons in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals. In: Slusher, R.E., Eggleton, B.J. (eds) Nonlinear Photonic Crystals. Springer Series in Photonics, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05144-3_4

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