Temporal analysis of open-circuit dark photovoltaic spatial solitons

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2515-2522

  Chauvet, Mathieu ^a  

^a FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ILLUMINATING FIELD; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0347022415     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.002515     Document Type: Article

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