Observation of discrete vortex solitons in optically induced photonic lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Neshev, Dragomir N ^a   Alexander, Tristram J ^a   Ostrovskaya, Elena A ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a   Martin, Hector ^b   Makasyuk, Igor ^b   Chen, Zhigang ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIFFRACTION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); LIGHT SCATTERING; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DISCRETE VORTEX SOLITONS; PHOTONIC LATTICES; PIEZOTRANSDUCER (PZT);

SOLITONS;

EID: 2342458911     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.123903     Document Type: Article

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