Long-range interactions between optical solitons

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 769-774

  Rotschild, Carmel ^a   Alfassi, Barak ^a   Cohen, Oren ^b   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

LOCALIZED WAVE PACKETS; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; NON-LINEAR MEDIA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SOLITON INTERACTIONS; TANGENTIAL VELOCITIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33750621702     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys445     Document Type: Article

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