Interactions between spatial screening solitons propagating in opposite directions

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1354-1357

  Rotschild, Carmel ^a   Cohen, Oren ^a   Manela, Ofer ^a   Carmon, Tal ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLITONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE SOLITONS; SPATIAL SCREENING SOLITONS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 10044269847     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001354     Document Type: Article

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