Simulations of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation: Arrest of beam collapse, nonparaxial solitons and counter-propagating beams

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13323-13329

  Baruch, G ^a   Fibich, G ^a   Tsynkov, Semyon ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; SOLITONS;

BACK-SCATTERED; COUNTER-PROPAGATING BEAM; COUNTERPROPAGATING; NON-PARAXIAL SOLITONS; NONLINEAR HELMHOLTZ EQUATIONS; NONPARAXIALITY; NUMERICAL EVIDENCE;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

ARTICLE; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 50049118036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013323     Document Type: Article

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