Optical solitons in a few-cycle regime: Breakdown of slow-envelope approximation

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 69, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 378-388

  Leblond, Hervé ^a   Sanchez, F ^a   Mel'Nikov, I V ^b,c   Mihalache, D ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Few cycle; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Spatiotemporal optical solitons

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HAMILTONIANS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

FEW-CYCLE; OPTICAL PULSES; OPTICAL SOLITONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL OPTICAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 19044387136     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2005.01.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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