Critical power for self-focusing in bulk media and in hollow waveguides

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 335-337

  Fibich, Gadi ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK MEDIA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0001576369     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000335     Document Type: Article

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