Variational analysis of spatio-temporal pulse dynamics in dispersive Kerr media

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1716-1721

  Jirauschek, Christian ^a   Morgner, Uwe ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

PULSE DYNAMICS;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 0037609841     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.001716     Document Type: Article

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