Emergence of linear wave segments and predictable traits in saturated nonlinear media

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 260-262

  DelRe, Eugenio ^a,b   D'Ercole, Angelo ^a,b   Agranat, Aharon J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SOLITONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

LINEAR WAVE SEGMENTS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037442856     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000260     Document Type: Article

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