Optical spatial solitons and modulation instabilities in transparent entangled polymer solutions

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 2839-2841

  Anyfantakis, Manos ^a,b   Loppinet, Benoit ^a   Fytas, George ^a,b   Pispas, Stergios ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c THEORETICAL AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLITONS;

CYLINDRICAL LENS; DEFOCUSING; ENTANGLED POLYMER SOLUTIONS; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL SPATIAL SOLITONS; PHASE-CONTRAST MICROSCOPY;

MODULATION;

EID: 57649235594     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.002839     Document Type: Article

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