Observation of random-phase lattice solitons

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7025, 2005, Pages 500-503

  Cohen, Oren ^a   Bartal, Guy ^a   Buljan, Hrvoje ^a,b   Carmon, Tal ^a   Fleischer, Jason W ^a,c   Segev, Mordechai ^a,c   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^d  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LATTICE VIBRATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFLECTION; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WAVE INTERFERENCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATOMIC SYSTEMS; BRAGG REFLECTIONS; COHERENT WAVES; RANDOM-PHASE LATTICE SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; LINEAR SYSTEM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SPACE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 13444262199     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03267     Document Type: Article

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