Dark-bright soliton pairs in nonlocal nonlinear media

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8781-8786

  Lin, YuanYao ^a   Lee, Ray Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

NONLOCAL NONLINEARITY; THRESHOLD POWER;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34547142179     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008781     Document Type: Article

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