Dark spatial solitons in bulk azo-dye-doped polymer using photoinduced molecular reorientation

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1104-1106

  Bian, Shaoping ^a   Kuzyk, Mark G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROCESSING; PHOTOINDUCED REORIENTATIONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLITONS;

CAMERAS; CHROMOPHORES; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFRACTION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER BEAMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

EID: 4444248646     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1780599     Document Type: Article

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