Dissipative optical flow in a nonlinear Fabry-Perot cavity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 416-419

  Bolda, E L ^a,c   Chiao, R Y ^a   Zurek, W H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; VELOCITY;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DISSIPATIVE OPTICAL FLOW; NONLINEAR FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; OPTICAL VORTICES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035127674     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.416     Document Type: Article

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