On the limits of validity of nonparaxial propagation equations in Kerr media

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5517-5523

  Ciattoni, Alessandro ^a,b   Crosignani, Bruno ^b,c,d   Di Porto, Paolo ^b,c   Scheuer, Jacob ^d   Yariv, Amnon ^d  

^a Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche CASTI Regional Lab ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLITONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

KERR MEDIA; NONLINEAR SCHROEDINGER EQUATION (NLSE); NONPARAXIAL PROPAGATION; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC (TE);

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 33745128118     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005517     Document Type: Article

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