Cavity and feedback solitons

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 54-58

  Firth, William J ^a   Weiss, Carl O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; DAMPING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

CAVITY SOLITONS; FEEDBACK SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0036488194     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.13.2.000054     Document Type: Article

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1. Two recently published books each contain chapters by the authors and others which give more details on the material presented here: (a) Spatial Solitons, S. Trillo and W. Torruellas (eds.), Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 62, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (2001).
2. (b) Soliton-Driven Photonics,A. D. Boardman and A. P. Sukhorukov (eds.), Kluwer, Amsterdam (2001).
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