Steady-state vortex-screening solitons formed in biased photorefractive media

Optics Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 1751-1753

  Chen, Zhigang ^a   Shih, Ming Feng ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a   Wilson, Daniel W ^b   Muller, Richard E ^b   Maker, Paul D ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTION; SOLITONS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE NONLINEARITY; SELF TRAPPING; SINGLY CHARGED VORTEX SCREENING SOLITON; STRONTIUM BARIUM NIOBATE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0031367313     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.22.001751     Document Type: Article

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