Effect of higher order nonlinearities on induced focusing and on the conversion of circular Gaussian laser beams into elliptic Gaussian laser beams

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 576-584

  Konar, S ^a   Mishra, Manoj ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Elliptic Gaussian beam; Quintic nonlinearity; Self focusing; Spatial Solitons

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; PROBLEM SOLVING; THRESHOLD LOGIC;

CIRCULAR LASER BEAMS; QUINTIC NONLINEARITY;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 25144524174     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/7/10/009     Document Type: Article

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