Ring vortex solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 435-443

  Briedis, D ^a   Petersen, D E ^a   Edmundson, D ^a   Krolikowski, W ^a   Bang, O ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS CONDENSATES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VORTEX FLOW;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BOSONIC INTERACTION; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; SELF-FOCUSING;

SOLITONS;

EID: 13544253638     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000435     Document Type: Article

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