Vector dark domain wall solitons in a fiber ring laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4428-4433

  Zhang, H ^a   Tang, D Y ^a   Zhao, L M ^a   Knize, R J ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RING LASERS;

COMPLEX GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION; EIGENSTATES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FIBER-RING LASERS; LASER EMISSION; LINEAR POLARIZATION; LOCALIZED STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; VECTOR DARK SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 77749280019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004428     Document Type: Article

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