Incoherent spatial solitons in saturable nonlinear media

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1080-1082

  Christodoulides, D N ^a   Coskun, T H ^a   Joseph, R I ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

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EID: 0001081398     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.001080     Document Type: Article

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