Traveling waves and counterpropagating bright droplets as a result of tailoring the transverse dispersion relation in a multistable optical system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Rankin, S ^a   Yao, E ^b   Papoff, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER BEAMS; LENSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

LIQUID CRYSTAL LIGHT VALVE; MULTISTABLE OPTICAL SYSTEM; NONLOCAL NONLINEARITY; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0141460744     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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