Diffraction managed solitons: Asymptotic validity and excitation thresholds

Nonlinearity

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2275-2297

  Moeser, Jamison T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 23444457769     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/18/5/020     Document Type: Article

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