Spatiotemporal optical instabilities in nematic solitons

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 493-504

  Strinic A I ^a   Timotijevic D V ^a   Arsenovic D ^a   Petrovic M S ^b   Belic M R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY (MI); MOLECULAR REORIENTATION; OPTICAL INSTABILITY; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 13644259964     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000493     Document Type: Article

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