Incoherent solitons: Self-trapping of weakly correlated wave packets

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 70-76

  Segev, Mordechai ^a,b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTALS; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FUNCTIONS; LASER OPTICS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SPECKLE;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0036488151     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.13.2.000070     Document Type: Article

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