Spatial solitons and light-induced instabilities in colloidal media

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1371-1376

  Matuszewski, Michał ^a   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

COLLOIDAL MEDIA; LIGHT-INDUCED INSTABILITIES;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 38549148359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001371     Document Type: Article

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