Counterpropagating beams in nematic liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12310-12315

  Strinic A I ^a   Jovic D M ^a   Petrovic M S ^a   Timotijevic D V ^a   Aleksic N B ^a   Belic M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SOLITONS;

COUNTERPROPAGATING BEAMS; FILAMENTATION; OPTICAL BEAMS; SPATIAL DIMENSIONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33845434896     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012310     Document Type: Article

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