Optical solitary waves escaping a wide trapping potential in nematic liquid crystals: Modulation theory

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Assanto, Gaetano ^a   Minzoni, Antonmaria A ^b   Peccianti, Marco ^c,d   Smyth, Noel F ^e  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d INRS EMT   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC OPTICS; MODULATION THEORIES; NONLINEAR EXTENSIONS; OPTICAL SOLITARY WAVES; POWER THRESHOLDS; SOLITARY WAVES; STATIC ELECTRIC FIELDS; TRAPPING POTENTIALS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; INFORMATION THEORY; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID WAVES; LIQUIDS; MODULATION; WAVEGUIDES; WAVES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 64049093372     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.033837     Document Type: Article

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