Soliton strings and interactions in mode-locked lasers

Optics Communications

Volumn 282, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4127-4135

  Ablowitz, Mark J ^a   Horikis, Theodoros P ^b   Nixon, Sean D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dispersion management; Mode locked lasers; Soliton strings

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS REGIMES; ANTI-SYMMETRIC; CONSTANT DISPERSIONS; DINGER EQUATION; DISPERSION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSION-MANAGED SYSTEMS; INITIAL STATE; LIMITING CASE; MASTER EQUATIONS; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; MODELOCKING; SOLITON INTERACTIONS;

DISPERSIONS; LASERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 69149107661     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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