Nematic liquid crystals: A suitable medium for self-confinement of coherent and incoherent light

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Peccianti, Marco ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

INCOHERENT LIGHT; NONLINEAR RESPONSE; OPTICAL BEAMS; SPATIAL SOLITARY WAVES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33748687601     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.035603     Document Type: Article

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