Sculpting oscillators with light within a nonlinear quantum fluid

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 190-194

  Tosi, G ^a,b   Christmann, G ^a   Berloff, N G ^c   Tsotsis, P ^d   Gao, T ^d,e   Hatzopoulos, Z ^d,e   Savvidis, P G ^d,e   Baumberg, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

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EID: 84857781342     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2182     Document Type: Article

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