Transverse modulation instability of vector optical beams in quadratic nonlinear media

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3119-3126

  Boardman, A D ^a   Bontemps, P ^a   Xie, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; STABILITY; VECTORS;

COUPLED EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MEDIA; PLANE WAVE EIGENSTATE; SECOND HARMONIC WAVE; TRANSVERSE MODULATION; VECTOR OPTICAL BEAM;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0031268491     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.003119     Document Type: Article

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