Transverse modulational instabilities of counterpropagating solitons in photorefractive crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 708-716

  Belic M ^a   Petrovic M ^a   Jovic D ^a   Strinic A ^a   Arsenovic D ^a   Motzek, K ^b   Kaiser, F ^b   Jander, Ph ^c   Denz, C ^c   Tlidi, M ^d   Mandel, Paul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTION; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

COPROPAGATING GEOMETRY; COUNTERPROPAGATING (CP) VECTOR SOILTONS; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITIES; SELF-TRAPPED OPTICAL STRUCTURES;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 2942715218     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000708     Document Type: Article

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