Dynamics of optical spatial solitons near the interface between two quadratically nonlinear media

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 596-602

  Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Zharov, Alexander A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

PHASE MATCHING;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0141676400     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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