Chaos Solitons & Fractals

Nonlinear Optical Patterns: Applications to SpatialSoliton Arrays, Quantum Aspects

A. Gatti, Luigi A. Lugiato, Lorenzo Spinelli, G. Tissoni, Massimo Brambilla, P. Di Trapani, Franco Prati, Gian‐Luca Oppo, Audrius Berzanskis

Published Apr 1, 1999• 2 citations

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DOI: 10.1016/s0960-0779(98)00039-3

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