Vortex solitons in a saturable optical medium

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-86

  Tikhonenko, Vladimir ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a   Steblina, Victoria V ^a   Zozulya, Alex A ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RELAXATION PROCESSES; RUBIDIUM; SOLITONS; VAPORS;

GENERALIZED NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; VORTEX SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0031674029     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.000079     Document Type: Article

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