Optical vortex solitons: Experiment versus theory

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3045-3053

  Luther Davies, Barry ^a   Christou, Jason ^a   Tikhonenko, Vladimir ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LASER BEAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VORTEX FLOW;

DARK SOLITON; FINITE EXTENT NONLINEARITY; KERR COEFFICIENT; NON KERR NONLINEARITY; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; OPTICAL VORTEX SOLITON; TRANSVERSE INSTABILITY;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0031274475     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.003045     Document Type: Article

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