Solitons in parity-time symmetric potentials with spatially modulated nonlocal nonlinearity

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 19355-19362

  Yin, Chengping ^a   He, Yingji ^b   Li, Huagang ^c   Xie, Jianing ^d  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG POLYTECHNIC NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (China)

^d FOSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

HIGH-POWER; IMAGINARY PARTS; LOW POWER; NON-LINEARITY; NONLOCAL NONLINEARITIES; NONLOCALITIES;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84865603227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.019355     Document Type: Article

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