Optical multisoliton generation in nematic liquid crystals

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2231-2233

  Peccianti, Marco ^a   Conti, Claudio ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PLANAR CELLS; SOLITARY WAVES; SPATIAL MODULATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0242636421     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.002231     Document Type: Article

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