Propagation of spatial optical solitons in a dielectric with adjustable nonlinearity

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Alberucci, A ^a   Piccardi, A ^a   Peccianti, M ^a,c   Kaczmarek, M ^b   Assanto, G ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTERNAL VOLTAGES; NEAR INFRARED; NON-LINEAR VARIATION; NON-LINEARITY; NONLOCALITIES; PLANAR CELLS; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL OPTICAL SOLITONS; THEORETICAL MODELS; WALK-OFF;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77956235002     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.023806     Document Type: Article

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