Multimode incoherent spatial solitons in logarithmically saturable nonlinear media

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2310-2313

  Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Coskun, Tamer H ^a   Mitchell, Matthew ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COHERENT DENSITY; MULTIMODE INCOHERENT SPATIAL SOLITONS; NONLINEAR MEDIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0032026927     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2310     Document Type: Article

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