Clustering of solitons in weakly correlated wavefronts

被引:38
作者
Chen, ZG
Sears, SM
Martin, H
Christodoulides, DN
Segev, M [1 ]
机构
[1] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[2] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Inst Solid State, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[3] San Francisco State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
[4] Lehigh Univ, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA
[5] Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
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10.1073/pnas.072287299
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the spontaneous clustering of solitons in partially coherent wavefronts during the final stages of pattern formation initiated by modulation instability and noise.
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页码:5223 / 5227
页数:5
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