Azimuthal instabilities and self-breaking of beams into sets of solitons in bulk second-harmonic generation

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 608-610

  Torner, L ^a   Petrov, D V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Optical harmonic generation; Solitons

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; LIGHT EMISSION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL HARMONIC GENERATION; PHASE DISLOCATIONS;

SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 0031100439     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19970429     Document Type: Article

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