Spontaneous pattern formation with incoherent white light

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Schwartz, Tal ^a   Carmon, Tal ^b   Buljan, Hrvoje ^a,c   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM (FWHM); MODULATION INSTABILITY; PATTERN FORMATION; WHITE LIGHT;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIFFRACTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLARIZATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 19944426001     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.223901     Document Type: Article

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