Vector solitons with locked and precessing states of polarization

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 27434-27440

  Sergeyev, Sergey V ^a   Mou, Chengbo ^a   Rozhin, Aleksey ^a   Turitsyn, Sergei K ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; MULTIPULSES; STATES OF POLARIZATIONS; VECTOR SOLITON;

FIBER LASERS; POLARIZATION;

SOLITONS;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84870578563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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