Incoherent spatial solitons in effectively instantaneous nonlinear media

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 371-376

  Rotschild, Carmel ^a   Schwartz, Tal ^a   Cohen, Oren ^a,b   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC FLUCTUATIONS; INCOHERENT SOLITONS; INTENSITY STRUCTURE; MULTIMODAL STRUCTURE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NONLOCAL NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL SPATIAL SOLITONS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 44849109691     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.81     Document Type: Article

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