Light bullets in Bessel optical lattices with spatially modulated nonlinearity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11328-11334

  Ye, Fangwei ^a   Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^b   Hu, Bambi ^a,c   Torner, Lluis ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

(190.0190) Nonlinear optics; (190.6135) Spatial solitons

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; LIGHT; MODULATION; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BESSEL OPTICAL LATTICES; MODULATION DEPTH; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; PROPAGATION CONSTANT; SPATIAL MODULATIONS; SPATIAL SOLITONS; SPATIALLY MODULATED; STABILITY DOMAINS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ARTICLE; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650523843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011328     Document Type: Article

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