Self-focusing and spatial plasmon-polariton solitons

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21732-21737

  Davoyan, Arthur R ^a   Shadrivov, Ilya V ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLITONS;

NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PLASMON-POLARITONS; SELF-FOCUSING; SPATIAL PLASMON SOLITONS; SPATIAL SOLITONS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

PLASMONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAGNETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 72449154122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021732     Document Type: Article

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