Second-order optical phase transition in a semilinear photorefractive oscillator with two counterpropagating pump waves

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 405-411

  Mathey, Pierre ^a   Jullien, Pierre ^a   Odoulov, Serguey G ^b   Shinkarenko, Oksana A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FEEDBACK; OSCILLATIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COHERENT OSCILLATIONS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0141510072     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000405     Document Type: Article

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