Solitons supported by spatially inhomogeneous nonlinear losses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2657-2667

  Borovkova, Olga V ^a   Kartashov, Yaroslav V ^a,b   Vysloukh, Victor A ^a   Lobanov, Valery E ^a   Malomed, Boris A ^c   Torner, Lluis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA;

DEFOCUSING; DIPOLE SOLITONS; DISSIPATIVE MEDIA; DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; FUNDAMENTAL SOLITONS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR LOSS; ONE DIMENSION; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84856416473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002657     Document Type: Article

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