Spontaneous formation of hexagons, squares and squeezed hexagons in a photorefractive phase conjugator with virtually internal feedback mirror

Optics Communications

Volumn 133, Issue 1-6, 1997, Pages 293-299

  Honda, Tokuyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a   Sedlatschek, Markus ^b   Denz, Cornelia ^b   Tschudi, Theo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hexagons; Phase conjugator; Photorefractive; Spontaneous pattern formation

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFRACTION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

INTERNAL FEEDBACK MIRROR; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MEDIUM; SPONTANEOUS PATTERN FORMATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0030825008     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(96)00434-8     Document Type: Article

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