Quadratic solitons resulting from double-resonance wave mixing

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2018-2025

  Towers, Isaac ^a   Buryak, Alexander V ^a   Sammut, Rowland A ^a   Malomed, Boris A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SWITCHES; RESONANCE; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLITONS;

RESONANCE WAVE MIXING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0034552727     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.002018     Document Type: Article

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