Composite vortex-ring solitons in Bessel photonic lattices

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1366-1370

  Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^a,c   Torner, Lluis ^a   Vysloukh, Victor A ^b  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; FOCUSING; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BESSEL PHOTONIC LATTICES; COMPOSITE VORTEX RING SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 22944472060     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001366     Document Type: Article

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