Interaction between vector solitons and solitonic gluons

Optics Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 327-329

  Ostrovskaya, Elena A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a   Chen, Zhigang ^b,c   Segev, Mordechai ^b,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c University High School San Francisco   (United States)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 0001115943     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.24.000327     Document Type: Article

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