Chapter 2 Optical solitons in periodic media with resonant and off-resonant nonlinearities

Progress in Optics

Volumn 42, Issue C, 2001, Pages 93-146

  Kurizki, Gershon ^a   Kozhekin, Alexander E ^a   Opatrny, Tomáš ^a   Malomed, Boris A ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 77956669241     PISSN: 00796638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6638(01)80016-0     Document Type: Chapter

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