Optical solitary waves in the presence of a Lorentzian gain line: Limitations of the Ginzburg-Landau model

Optics Communications

Volumn 145, Issue 1-6, 1998, Pages 385-392

  Pare C ^a   Belanger P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optical amplification; Optical solitons; Parabolic gain approximation

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GINZBURG LANDAU EQUATIONS; OPTICAL SOLITARY WAVES; PARABOLIC GAIN APPROXIMATION; SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0030623091     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00433-1     Document Type: Article

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