Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 1, 148(2022)

Spatial cage solitons—taming light bullets

Chao Mei1,2, Ihar Babushkin3, Tamas Nagy1, and Günter Steinmeyer1,4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, 12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 2School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing 100083, China
  • 3Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany
  • 4Institut für Physik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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    Paper Information

    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Jul. 26, 2021

    Accepted: Oct. 25, 2021

    Published Online: Dec. 14, 2021

    The Author Email: Günter Steinmeyer (steinmey@mbi-berlin.de)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.438610

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