Stability of vortex solitons in thermal nonlinear media with cylindrical symmetry

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9378-9384

  Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^a   Vysloukh, Victor A ^b   Torner, Lluis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; SOLITONS; STABILITY CRITERIA; THERMAL EFFECTS; VORTICITY;

NONLOCAL THERMAL NONLINEARITY; THERMAL NONLINEAR MEDIA; VORTEX-RING SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 34547527872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009378     Document Type: Article

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