Optically induced photovoltaic self-defocusing-to-self-focusing transition

Optics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 924-926

  Anastassiou, Charalambos ^a   Shih, Ming Feng ^a   Mitchell, Matthew ^a   Chen, Zhigang ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

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EID: 0000169069     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.23.000924     Document Type: Article

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14. The term "focused" is used to distinguish the narrow beam focused to the input face of the crystal from the uniform-background beam. It should not be confused with the terms "self-focused" and "self-defocused," which describe the output beam at steady state.
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