Cavity light bullets: Three-dimensional localized structures in a nonlinear optical resonator

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Brambilla, Massimo ^a   Maggipinto, Tommaso ^a   Patera, Giuseppe ^a   Columbo, Lorenzo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SOLITONS;

CAVITY LIGHT BULLETS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESONATORS; PLANE WAVE APPROXIMATIONS; RADIATION CONFINEMENT;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 18744410896     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.203901     Document Type: Article

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