Modulational instability of quasi-plane-wave optical beams biased in photorefractive crystals

Optics Communications

Volumn 126, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 167-174

  Carvalho, M I ^a   Singh, S R ^a   Christodoulides, D N ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; LIGHT REFRACTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SOLITONS;

BISMUTH TITANIUM OXIDE; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; QUASI PLANE WAVE OPTICAL BEAMS; SPATIAL GROWTH RATE;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0030143736     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(95)00743-1     Document Type: Article

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