Instability mechanism for bright solitary-wave solutions to the cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2757-2762

  Kapitala, Todd ^a   Sandstede, Björn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032355359     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/josab.15.002757     Document Type: Article

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