Soliton "molecules": Robust clusters of spatiotemporal optical solitons

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 4 2, 2003, Pages 466101-466105

  Crasovan, Lucian Cornel ^a,d   Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^a,e   Mihalache, Dumitru ^a,d   Torner, Lluis ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b   Pérez García, Víctor M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ANGULAR MOMENTUM;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0038541782     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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