Observation of vortex-ring "discrete" solitons in 2D photonic lattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Fleischer, Jason W ^a,b   Bartal, Guy ^a   Cohen, Oren ^a   Manela, Ofer ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Hudock, Jared ^b   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; TOPOLOGY;

LATTICE GEOMETRIES; NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; VORTEX ARRAY; VORTEX RING DISCRETE SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 2342563637     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.123904     Document Type: Article

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