Three-dimensional optical beam propagation and solitons in photorefractive crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3078-3090

  Crosignani, Bruno ^a,b   Di Porto, Paolo ^a,b   Degasperis, Antonio ^c,d   Segev, Mordechai ^e   Trillo, Stefano ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^e Princeton University   (United States)

^f FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTALS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; INTEGRATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DARK SOLITON; OPTICAL FIELD; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTAL; SELF TRAPPED BEAM PROPAGATION; SPACE CHARGE FIELD; WIDTH AMPLITUDE RELATION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0031274476     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.003078     Document Type: Article

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