Birth, evolution and annihilation of phase singularities in the propagation of a laser beam passed through a self-focusing strontium barium niobate crystal

Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 169-180

  Ilyenkov, A V ^a   Kreminskaya, L V ^a   Soskin, M S ^a   Vasnetsov, M V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; STRONTIUM; VORTEX FLOW; WAVEFRONTS;

ANNIHILATION OF PHASE SINGULARITIES; FREE SPACE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL VORTICES; PHASE SINGULARITIES; PHOTO-REFRACTIVE; STRONTIUM BARIUM NIOBATE CRYSTALS; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES; WAVEFRONT DISTORTION;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031475648     PISSN: 02188635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218863597000150     Document Type: Article

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