Solitons in Nonlinear Media with an Infinite Range of Nonlocality: First Observation of Coherent Elliptic Solitons and of Vortex-Ring Solitons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 21, 2005, Pages

  Rotschild, Carmel ^a,b   Cohen, Oren ^a,b   Manela, Ofer ^a,b   Segev, Mordechai ^a,b   Carmon, Tal ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLOCAL NONLINEARITIES; SOLITON PROPAGATION; VORTEX-RING SOLITONS;

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; VORTEX FLOW;

SOLITONS;

EID: 28844454898     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.213904     Document Type: Article

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