Cross-phase-modulation nonlinearities and holographic solitons in periodically poled photovoltaic photorefractives

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 954-956

  Cohen, Oren ^a   Murnane, Margaret M ^a   Kapteyn, Henry C ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC ENERGY EXCHANGE; HOMOGENEOUSLY POLED PHOTOVOLTAIC PHOTOREFRACTIVES; PERIODIC POLING; THIRRING-TYPE SOLITONS;

HOLOGRAPHY; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLITONS;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 33744944267     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000954     Document Type: Article

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