Spatial coherence singularities and incoherent vortex solitons

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1437-1442

  Motzek, Kristian ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b   Shih, Ming Feng ^c   Swartzlander Jr , Grover A ^d  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SOLITONS;

OPTICAL VORTICES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTAL; SPATIAL COHERENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 22944442212     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001437     Document Type: Article

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