Control and steering of phase domain walls

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3631-3636

  Esteban Martín, Adolfo ^a   Taranenko, Victor B ^a   Roldán, Eugenio ^a   De Valcárcel, Germán J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL STEERING; OPTICALLY CONTROLLED LOCATION; PHASE DOMAIN WALLS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE OSCILLATORS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 21244493618     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.003631     Document Type: Article

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