Transient multiwave mixing and diffraction with nonsinusoidal intensity-dependent index grating in a nonlinear medium

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 804-813

  LoPresti, P G ^a   Khoo, I C ^b  

^a The University of Tulsa Tulsa   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

INDEX GRATING; THERMAL INDEX GRADIENT;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031122196     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.000804     Document Type: Article

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