Experimental demonstration of novel effects on the far-field diffraction patterns of a Gaussian beam in a Kerr medium

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 947-951

  Nascimento, Cesar M ^a   Alencar, Ḿrcio A R C ^a   Ch́vez Cerda, Sabino ^b   Da Silva, Monique G A ^a   Meneghetti, Mario R ^a   Hickmann, Jandir M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Beam curvature; Diffraction pattern; Gaussian beam; Kerr media; Nonlinear optics; Nonlinear phase shift; Self focusing; Spatial self phase modulation; Spatial solitons

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER BEAMS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHASE SHIFT; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM CURVATURE; DIFFRACTION PATTERN; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; KERR MEDIA; NONLINEAR PHASE-SHIFT; SELF-FOCUSING; SPATIAL SELF-PHASE MODULATION; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33751283548     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/8/11/003     Document Type: Article

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