Chapter 3 Photorefractive Solitons and Their Underlying Nonlocal Physics

Progress in Optics

Volumn 53, Issue , 2009, Pages 153-200

  DelRe, Eugenio ^a   Crosignani, Bruno ^a   Di Porto, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

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EID: 67649337266     PISSN: 00796638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6638(08)00203-5     Document Type: Article

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