Rotating soliton solutions in nonlocal nonlinear media

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 9118-9131

  Skupin, S ^a   Green, M ^a   Krolikowski W ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

GENERIC PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR WAVES; NONLOCAL NONLINEAR MEDIA; NONLOCAL RESPONSE; ROTATING FREQUENCIES; SOLITON SOLUTIONS; STATIONARY SOLUTIONS; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45249120976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009118     Document Type: Article

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