Self-organization of spatial solitons

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6202-6211

  Centurion, Martin ^a   Pu, Ye ^a   Psaltis, Demetri ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

PERIODIC ARRAYS; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SPATIAL SOLITONS; TRANSVERSE MODULATION INSTABILITY;

SOLITONS;

EID: 24044529776     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006202     Document Type: Article

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