Third-order dispersion radiation in solid-state solitary lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1484-1495

  Santagiustina, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LASER PULSES; LASER THEORY; LIGHT EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLITONS;

FREQUENCY SHIFT; MASTER EQUATION; SOLITON PERTURBATION THEORY; THIRD ORDER DISPERSION;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0031168775     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001484     Document Type: Article

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