Scale-free optics and diffractionless waves in nanodisordered ferroelectrics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-42

  DelRe, E ^a   Spinozzi, E ^a   Agranat, A J ^b   Conti, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; SCALE-FREE; SOLITON INTENSITY; SPATIAL SCALE; WAVE FORMS; WAVE SHAPE;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; SOLITONS;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 78650565627     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.285     Document Type: Article

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