Models of few optical cycle solitons beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation

Physics Reports

Volumn 523, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 61-126

  Leblond, H ^a   Mihalache, D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Circular polarization; Complex modified Korteweg de Vries equation; Density matrix; Few cycle dissipative solitons; Few cycle light bullets; Few cycle pulses; Few optical cycle solitons; Generalized Kadomtsev Petviashvili equation; Half cycle optical solitons; Linear polarization; Long wave approximation; Maxwell Bloch equations; Modified Korteweg de Vries equation; Reductive perturbation method; Short wave approximation; Sine Gordon equation; Two level atoms; Unipolar pulses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872669866     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2012.10.006     Document Type: Review

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