Solitons and topological waves

A laser-fabricated waveguide array creates a nonlinear medium that supports solitons The intense coherent emission from lasers enabled the study of light propagation in nonlinear media, which spurred many important applications. More recently, the study of electromagnetic wave propagation in periodi...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2020-05, Vol.368 (6493), p.821-822
Main Authors: Ablowitz, Mark J, Cole, Justin T
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Cyclotrons
Electromagnetic radiation
Emission analysis
Lasers
Solitary waves
Spatial distribution
Topology
Wave propagation
Waveguides
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