Isotropic versus anisotropic modeling of photorefractive solitons

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

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Belic M R ^a   Vujic D ^a   Stepken, A ^b   Kaiser, F ^b   Calvo, G F ^c   Agullo Lopez F ^c   Carrascosa, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

KUKHTAREV MODEL; SPATIAL SCREENING SOLITONS; STRONTIUM BARIUM NIOBATE (SBN); TWO-BODY SYSTEMS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 41349087093     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.066610     Document Type: Article

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