Guiding light into the millennium

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1408-1411

  Snyder, Allan W ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuum model of brain neural networks; Optical fibers; Polarizing fibers; Spatial optical solitons; Weak guidance approximation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

SCHRODINGER WAVE EQUATIONS; SPATIAL SOLITON DYNAMICS; WEAK GUIDANCE APPROXIMATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034313103     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.902195     Document Type: Article

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