Partially Incoherent Optical Vortices in Self-Focusing Nonlinear Media

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 439041-439044

  Jeng, Chien Chung ^a   Shih, Ming Feng ^a   Motzek, Kristian ^b,c   Kivshar, Yuri ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HOLOGRAMS; LIGHTING; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS; VORTEX FLOW;

AZIMUTHAL INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL VORTICES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 1442307113     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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