Collisions between Optical Spatial Solitons Propagating in Opposite Directions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 13, 2002, Pages

  Cohen, Oren ^a   Uzdin, Raam ^a   Carmon, Tal ^a   Fleischer, Jason W ^a,b   Segev, Mordechai ^a,b   Odoulov, Serguey ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOCUSING; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; RADIATION EFFECTS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

OPTICAL SPATIAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0037163753     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.133901     Document Type: Article

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