Experiments on partially coherent photorefractive solitons

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Chen, Zhigang ^a,b   Segev, Mordechai ^c   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Guided waves; Incoherent solitons; Photorefractive nonlinear optics

Indexed keywords

HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS;

INCOHERENT SOLITONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0344872571     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/5/6/R301     Document Type: Review

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