Theory of incoherent optical solitons: Beyond the mean-field approximation

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 1 2, 2004, Pages

  Ponomarenko, S A ^a   Litchinitser, N M ^b   Agrawal, G P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT SOURCES; MONOCHROMATORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; MEAN-FIELD APPROXIMATION (MFA); MONOCHROMATIC LASER LIGHT; OPTICAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 42749107787     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.015603     Document Type: Article

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