Gray spatial solitons in biased photorefractive media

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 55-63

  Grandpierre, Alexandra G ^a   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Coskun, Tamer H ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^c,d   Kivshar, Yuri S ^e  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLITONS;

SPATIAL SOLITONS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0035584302     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.000055     Document Type: Article

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