Femtosecond nanometer-sized optical solitons

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Pusch, Andreas ^a   Hamm, Joachim M ^a   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING MEDIUM; COHERENT PULSE; FEMTOSECONDS; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATION; MODE AREA; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; OPTICAL SOLITON; QUASISOLITONS; RABI FREQUENCY; SELF-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84857517413     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.023827     Document Type: Article

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