Slow vector optical solitons in a cold five-level hyper V-type atomic system

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 7771-7783

  Si, Liu Gang ^a   Yang, Wen Xing ^b   Liu, Ji Bing ^c   Li, Jin ^a   Yang, Xiaoxue ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; PROBES; VECTORS;

ATOMIC MEDIUM; ATOMIC SYSTEM; DISPERSION EFFECT; DISTORTION-FREE; MANAKOV SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SOLITON; POLARIZED COMPONENTS; VECTOR SOLITON;

SOLITONS;

EID: 66549117336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007771     Document Type: Article

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