Unidirectional optical Bloch oscillations in asymmetric waveguide arrays
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Unidirectional optical Bloch oscillations in asymmetric waveguide arrays.
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عنوان ژورنال: Optics Letters
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0146-9592,1539-4794
DOI: 10.1364/ol.36.004359