Does the nonlinear Schrödinger equation correctly describe beam propagation?

Optics Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 411-413

  Akhmediev, Nail ^a   Soto Crespo, Jose Maria ^a   Ankiewicz, Adrian ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; PARABOLIC EQUATION; SELF FOCUSING;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0027552558     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.18.000411     Document Type: Article

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