Spatial solitons: Bending light at will

Yuri Kivshar

doi:10.1038/nphys452

Spatial solitons: Bending light at will

Yuri Kivshar^*

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	729-730
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Physics
Volume	2
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys452
Publication status	Published - Nov 2006

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