Stable droplets and dark-ring cavity solitons in nonlinear optical devices

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 238-244

  Gomila, Damià ^a   Colet, Pere ^a   San Miguel, Maxi ^a   Scroggie, Andrew J ^b   Oppo, Gian Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cavity solitons; Optical parametric oscillators; Vectorial Kerr resonators

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SOLITONS;

CAVITY SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037320297     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.807209     Document Type: Article

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