Soliton pairing of two coaxially co-propagating mutually incoherent 1-D beams in Kerr type media

Optica Applicata

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 243-259

  Medhekar, Sarang ^a   Sarkar, Ram Krishna ^a   Paltani, Punya Prasanna ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Kerr media; Self focusing; Soliton pairing; Spatial solitons

Indexed keywords

FISH; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS; THEOREM PROVING;

(E ,2E) THEORY; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; COPROPAGATING; COUPLING COEFFICIENTS; DINGER EQUATION; PARABOLIC EQUATION (PE); PROPAGATION BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 46649113731     PISSN: 00785466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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