Vortical light bullets in second-harmonic-generating media supported by a trapping potential

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 9813-9823

  Sakaguchi, Hidetsugu ^a   Malomed, Boris A ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLITONS; STABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; MISMATCH PARAMETERS; SHAPE OSCILLATION; STABILITY BOUNDARIES; STABILITY REGIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODEL; TRAPPING POTENTIAL; VARIATIONAL APPROXIMATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84877138340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.009813     Document Type: Article

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