Spatiotemporal pulse-train solitons

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7052-7058

  Gurgov, Hassid C ^a   Cohen, Oren ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BRIGHT PULSE; LIGHT BULLET; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; SHORT PULSE; SPATIOTEMPORAL PULSE; SPATIOTEMPORAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 66649133171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007052     Document Type: Article

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