Circularly polarized spatial solitons in Kerr media beyond paraxial approximation

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 6931-6936

  Wang, Hongcheng ^a   She, Weilong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIGHT; POLARIZATION; SOLITONS;

KERR MEDIA; NON-PARAXIAL DEGREE; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATION; POLARIZED SPATIAL SOLITONS;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 24944536370     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006931     Document Type: Article

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