Nonparaxial optical Kerr vortex solitons with radial polarization

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1590-1595

  Wang, Hongcheng ^a   She, Weilong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; TOPOLOGY;

NONPARAXIAL OPTICAL KERR VORTEX SOLITONS; RADIAL POLARIZATION; SPATIAL WIDTH;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33144485462     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001590     Document Type: Article

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