Nonlinear dynamics of two-color optical vortices in lithium niobate crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5406-5420

  Dreischuh, Alexander ^a,b   Neshev, Dragomir N ^a   Kolev, Vesselin Z ^a   Saltiel, Solomon ^a,b   Samoc, Marek ^a   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTALS; TWO-COLOR OPTICAL VORTICES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NIOBIUM; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 42149164947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005406     Document Type: Article

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