Self-trapping of light in an organic photorefractive glass

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 2509-2511

  Chen, Zhigang ^a,b   Asaro, Marcus ^a,b   Ostroverkhova, Oksana ^c   Moerner, W E ^c   He, Meng ^d   Twieg, R J ^d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

OPTICAL BEAM POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SPATIAL SOLITONS; ORGANIC PHOTOREFRACTIVE GLASS;

OPTICAL GLASS;

EID: 0347653194     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.002509     Document Type: Article

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