Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 1, 148(2022)
Spatial cage solitons—taming light bullets
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Chao Mei, Ihar Babushkin, Tamas Nagy, Günter Steinmeyer, "Spatial cage solitons—taming light bullets," Photonics Res. 10, 148 (2022)
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)