Anisotropic charge displacement supporting isolated photorefractive optical needles

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 908-910

  DelRe, Eugenio ^a,b   Ciattoni, Alessandro ^a,b   Agranat, Aharon J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL NEEDLES;

ANISOTROPY; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NEEDLES; READOUT SYSTEMS; SOLITONS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0000989582     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.000908     Document Type: Article

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