Azimuthally polarized spatial dark solitons: Exact solutions of Maxwell's equations in a Kerr medium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2005, Pages

  Ciattoni, Alessandro ^a   Crosignani, Bruno ^a,b,c   Porto, Paolo Di ^a,b   Yariv, Amnon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERR MEDIUM; NONPARAXIAL ORDERS; OPTICAL INTENSITY; SPATIAL DARK SOLITONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; POLARIZATION; VECTORS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 18144408010     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.073902     Document Type: Article

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