Self-focusing in the perturbed and unperturbed nonlinear Schrodinger equation in critical dimension

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-240

  Fibich, Gadi ^a   Papanicolaou, George ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DAVEY-STEWARTSON EQUATIONS; DEBYE RELAXATION PROCESSES; LOGLOG LAW; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0342647291     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139997322407     Document Type: Article

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