Photorefractive solitons

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-12

  Królikowski, Wieslaw ^a   Luther Davies, Barry ^a   Denz, Cornelia ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Photorefractive materials; Photorefractive nonlinearity; Spatial solitons

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TENSORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTROOPTIC TENSOR; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE NONLINEARITY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0037248069     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.806190     Document Type: Article

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