Transverse dynamics of nematicons

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 6524-6529

  Peccianti, Marco ^a   Fratalocchi, Andrea ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; ELASTIC MODULI; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VECTORS;

EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; NEMATICONS; TRANSVERSE DYNAMICS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 11244260498     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.006524     Document Type: Article

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