Suppression of soliton transverse instabilities in nonlocal nonlinear media

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 576-581

  Lin, YuanYao ^a   Lee, Ray Kuang ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

ASYMPTOTIC EXPRESSIONS; BRIGHT SOLITONS; INSTABILITY GROWTH; LONG-WAVE APPROXIMATION; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL NONLINEAR MEDIA; TRANSVERSE INSTABILITY;

SOLITONS;

EID: 49049119494     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000576     Document Type: Article

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