Pinning-induced round solitons with symmetric nonlinear response for electroactivated optical circuitry

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Pierangelo, Angelo ^a   DelRe, E ^b   Palange, E ^b   Ciattoni, A ^b   Garcia, Y ^c   Agranat, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

INDEX STRUCTURES; OPTICAL CIRCUITRY; PINNING; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33748978767     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2357041     Document Type: Article

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