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Nature Physics 2, 729 - 730 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys452
Subject Categories: Optical physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics
Spatial solitons: Bending light at will
Yuri Kivshar1
- Yuri Kivshar is at Nonlinear Physics Centre and CUDOS@ANU, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia. e-mail: ysk124@rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Abstract
The ability to control the path of optical spatial solitons — non-spreading filaments of light that travel through a bulk nonlinear medium — could aid their use in signal processing and other photonics applications.
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