Incoherent collisions between two-dimensional bright steady-state photorefractive spatial screening solitons

Optics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 1538-1540

  Shih, Ming Feng ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CRYSTALS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; DIFFRACTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

COLLISION ANGLE; INCOHERENT SOLITON COLLISIONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE SCREENING SOLITONS; TWO WAVE MIXING;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0030257666     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.21.001538     Document Type: Article

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