Nematicons

Physics Reports

Volumn 516, Issue 4-5, 2012, Pages 147-208

  Peccianti, Marco ^a,b   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical solitons; Self effects; Spatial solitons

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863878053     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2012.02.004     Document Type: Review

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