Wiggling and bending-free micron-sized solitons in periodically biased photorefractives

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 10867-10872

  Ciattoni, A ^a,b   DelRe, E ^b,c   Marini, A ^b   Rizza, C ^a,b  

^a CASTI Regional Lab ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS;

BEAM DIFFRACTION; MATTER DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPAGATION; OFF-AXIS; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVES; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; SPATIO TEMPORAL;

SOLITONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 47849091250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010867     Document Type: Article

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