Atomic vapors - a versatile tool in studies of optical pattern formation

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 617-626

  Lange, W ^a   Ackemann, T ^a   Aumann, A ^a   Buthe E ^a   Logvin, Yu A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MIRRORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SODIUM; VAPORS;

ATOMIC VAPORS; PATTERN FORMATION; SINGLE MIRROR SYSTEM;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033116043     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00010-1     Document Type: Note

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