Controllable branching of optical beams by quasi-two-dimensional dark spatial solitons

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2869-2876

  Neshev, D ^a,b   Dreischuh, A ^a,b   Dinev, S ^a,b   Windholz, L ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

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EID: 0031522460     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.002869     Document Type: Article

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