Spatial solitons interaction in liquid crystalline waveguides

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-62

  Karpierz, M A ^a   Nguyen, Q V ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Liquid crystalline waveguides; Spatial solitons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011944948     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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