Light bullets in nonlinear periodically curved waveguide arrays
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Michal Matuszewski,1 Ivan L. Garanovich,1 and Andrey A. Sukhorukov1,2 1Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia 2Centre for Ultra-high Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia (Received 13 January 2010; published 26 April 2010)
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