Self-focussed optical structures in a nematic liquid crystal

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 471-497

  McLaughlin, David W ^a   Muraki, David J ^a   Shelley, Michael J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOCUSING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

AMPLITUDE UNDULATION; BEAM FILAMENTATION; OPTICAL BEAM STRUCTURES; PARAXIAL OPTICS; SELF FOCUSING; UNDULATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0030263575     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-2789(96)00069-3     Document Type: Article

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