Self-focusing of elliptic beams: An example of the failure of the aberrationless approximation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1749-1758

  Fibich, G ^a   Ilan, B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

ELLIPTIC BEAMS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0034355739     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001749     Document Type: Article

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