Azimuthons in weakly nonlinear waveguides of different symmetries

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27846-27857

  Zhang, Yiqi ^a,b   Skupin, Stefan ^a,c   Maucher, Fabian ^a   Galestian Pour, Arpa ^c   Lu, Keqing ^b   Kŕolikowski, Wieslaw ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTATION; SOLITONS;

AZIMUTHONS; CRITICAL VALUE; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; MODULATION DEPTH; NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ROTATION FREQUENCIES; SPATIAL DEFORMATION; SPATIAL SOLITONS; SQUARE WAVEGUIDE;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MESON; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MESONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650532364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027846     Document Type: Article

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