Observation of Optical Spatial Solitons in a Highly Nonlocal Medium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Conti, Claudio ^a   Peccianti, Marco ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

BEAM PROPAGATION; HIGHLY NONLOCAL NONLINEAR MEDIUM (HNNM); NONLOCAL MEDIA; SOLITARY BEAMS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 2342487998     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.113902     Document Type: Article

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