Multicomponent two-dimensional solitons carrying topological charges

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-63

  Musslimani, Ziad H ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a,b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c Lehigh University   (United States)

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EID: 0001930189     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000061     Document Type: Article

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