Could cavity solitons exist in bidirectional ring lasers?

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 995-997

  Columbo, L ^a   Gil, L ^a   Tredicce, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SOLITONS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL RINGS; CAVITY SOLITONS; CLASS A; LOCALIZED STRUCTURES; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS;

RING LASERS;

EID: 44949187303     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.000995     Document Type: Article

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