Incoherent collisions between one-dimensional steady-state photorefractive screening solitons

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 27, 1996, Pages 4151-4153

  Shih, Ming Feng ^a   Chen, Zhigang ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Coskun, Tamer H ^b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHTING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

INCOHERENT COLLISIONS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PHOTOREFRACTIVE SCREENING SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0030411057     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.116968     Document Type: Article

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