Topologically multicharged and multihumped rotating solitons in wide-aperture lasers with a saturable absorber

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-205

  Fedorov, Sergey V ^a   Rosanov, Nikolay N ^a   Shatsev, Anatoly N ^a   Veretenov, Nikolay A ^b   Vladimirov, Andrei G ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Lasers; Nonlinear optics; Optical bistability; Optical solitons

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLITONS;

WIDE APERTURE LASERS;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0037314059     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.807212     Document Type: Article

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