Self-trapping of incoherent white light

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6636, 1997, Pages 880-883

  Mitchell, Matthew ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECTRUM;

EID: 0030878162     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43136     Document Type: Article

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