Existence and stability of modulating pulse solutions in Maxwell's equations describing nonlinear optics

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 677-712

  Schneider, Guido ^a   Uecker, Hannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Center manifold reduction; Nonlinear optics; Perturbed nonlinear Schr dinger; Spatial dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041743190     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00033-003-1048-5     Document Type: Article

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