Bright, dark, bistable bright, and vortex spatial-optical solitons in a cold three-state medium

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1609-1614

  Xie, Xiao Tao ^a   Li, Wei Bin ^b   Yang, Xiaoxue ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SOLITONS;

COLD THREE-STATE MEDIUM; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; VORTEX SPATIAL-OPTICAL SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33750085597     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001609     Document Type: Article

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