Stable (2+1)-dimensional solitons in a layered medium with sign-alternating kerr nonlinearity

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 537-543

  Towers, Isaac ^a,b   Malomed, Boris A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS;

TRANSVERSE BEAM PROPAGATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0000458417     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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