Highly localized discrete quadratic solitons

Robert Iwanow1, George I Stegeman, Roland Schiek

  • 1Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers and Florida Photonics Center of Excellence, College of Optics, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA. iwanow@creol.ucf.edu

Optics Letters
|May 24, 2005
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