Stable discrete surface light bullets

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 589-595

  Mihalache, Dumitru ^a,b   Mazilu, Dumitru ^a,b   Lederer, Falk ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b,c  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLITONS; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUASI-BULK BULLETS; SPATIOTEMPORAL LIGHT LOCALIZATION; SURFACE LIGHT BULLETS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 33846549368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000589     Document Type: Article

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