Spatiotemporal pattern formation in counterpropagating two-wave mixing with an externally applied field

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2070-2078

  Sandfuchs, O ^a   Kaiser, F ^a   Belic M R ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

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EID: 0032394220     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.002070     Document Type: Article

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