Finite beam curvature related patterns in a saturable medium

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 161-166

  Kapoor, Rakesh ^a   Agarwal, G S ^b  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; FINITE BEAM CURVATURE; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; NONLINEAR POLARIZATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 3242877049     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000161     Document Type: Article

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