Propagation of dark stripe beams in nonlinear media: Snake instability and creation of optical vortices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2262-2265

  Mamaev, A V ^a   Saffman, V ^a   Zozulya, A A ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HELIUM NEON LASERS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DARK STRIPE BEAMS; DEFOCUSING; OPTICAL VORTICES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE NONLINEAR RESPONSE; SNAKE INSTABILITY;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 0030104721     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2262     Document Type: Article

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