Polychromatic partially spatially incoherent solitons in a noninstantaneous Kerr nonlinear medium

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 397-404

  Buljan, Hrvoje ^a   Schwartz, Tal ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SOLITONS;

SPATIALLY INCOHERENT SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 1342307967     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000397     Document Type: Article

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