Molding and stretched evolution of optical solitons in cumulative nonlinearities

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 26, 2003, Pages

  Dari Salisburgo, Cesare ^a,b   DelRe, Eugenio ^a,b   Palange, Elia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; HOLOGRAMS; LIGHTING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTION; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

OPTICAL SOLITONS; SELF-FOCUSED BEAMS; SELF-TRAPPING;

SOLITONS;

EID: 1042277421     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.263903     Document Type: Article

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