Transmission of images through highly nonlinear media by gradient-index lenses formed by incoherent solitons

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 524-526

  Kip, Detlef ^a,d   Anastassiou, Charalambos ^a   Eugenieva, Eugenia ^b   Christodoulides, Demetrios ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^a,c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOHERENT SOLITONS;

CRYSTALS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FOCUSING; LENSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SOLITONS;

GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS;

EID: 0011254589     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000524     Document Type: Article

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