Dynamics of transverse waves and zigzag instabilities in photorefractive two-wave mixing with a feedback mirror

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 505-514

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

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFLECTION;

TRANSVERSE WAVES;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0035607663     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.000505     Document Type: Article

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