Stabilization and breakup of coupled dipole-mode beams in an anisotropic nonlinear medium

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 557-562

  Ahles, Marcus ^a   Motzek, Kristian ^a   Stepken, Andreas ^a   Kaiser, Friedemann ^a   Weilnau, Carsten ^b   Denz, Cornelia ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANISOTROPY; DIFFRACTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SOLITONS; VORTEX FLOW;

DIPOLE-MODE BEAMS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0001674179     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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