Solitary electromagnetic waves in non-Kerr-like nonlinear media

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 33, Issue 2 PART 2, 1997, Pages 1560-1563

  Ma, Jian Guo ^b   Chen, Zhizhang ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERR ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECT; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS;

NON KERR LIKE NONLINEAR MEDIA;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031099892     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.582563     Document Type: Article

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