Spatial optical solitons: Guiding light for future technologies

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 59-63

  Kivshar, Yuri S ^a   Stegeman, George I ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0036488198     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.13.2.000059     Document Type: Article

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