Perfect optical solitons: Spatial Kerr solitons as exact solutions of Maxwell's equations

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1384-1394

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; OPTICAL SOLITONS; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATION; SPATIAL KERR SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 22944436448     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001384     Document Type: Article

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