Coherent collisions of photorefractive solitons

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 448-450

  Meng, Hongxing ^a   Salamo, Greg ^a   Shih, Ming Feng ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCULATIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTALS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE SOLITONS; SOLITON COLLISIONS; TWO BEAM COUPLING INTERACTION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0031121828     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.000448     Document Type: Article

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