Spiral attractor created by vector solitons

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sergeyev, Sergey V ^a   Mou, Chengbo ^a   Turitsyna, Elena G ^a   Rozhin, Alexey ^a   Turitsyn, Sergei K ^a   Blow, Keith ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chaos; Mode locked laser; Polarisation phenomena; Vector soliton

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHAOS THEORY; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; POLARIZATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; VECTORS; VIRTUAL STORAGE; YARN;

DATA STORAGE DEVICES; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; ERBIUM-DOPED FIBRE LASERS; FIBRE-OPTIC COMMUNICATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY; MODE-LOCKED LASER; POLARISATION PHENOMENA; VECTOR SOLITON;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84891794942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2014.12     Document Type: Article

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