Space-time bullet trains via modulation instability and nonlocal solitons

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 5934-5941

  Peccianti, Marco ^a,b   Burgess, Ian B ^a,c   Assanto, Gaetano ^d   Morandotti, Roberto ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTALS; LOCOMOTIVES; PROJECTILES; RAILROAD CARS; SOLITONS;

MODULATION INSTABILITIES; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR DIELECTRIC; NONLOCAL; OPTICAL PACKETS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77949598589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005934     Document Type: Article

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