Elliptical solitons in nonconventionally biased photorefractive crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 536-544

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Zhao, Jianlin ^a   Lou, Cibo ^b   Tan, Xiaoyu ^a,d   Gao, Yuhan ^a   Liu, Qian ^a   Yang, Dexing ^a   Xu, Jingjun ^b   Chen, Zhigang ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SOLITONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHY; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; STRONTIUM BARIUM NIOBATE (SBN) CRYSTAL;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 33846551102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000536     Document Type: Article

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