New time-dependent photorefractive three-dimensional model: Application to self-trapped beam with large bending

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1081-1086

  Devaux, Fabrice ^a   Coda, Virginie ^b   Chauvet, Mathieu ^a   Passier, Rémy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b SUPELEC   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOREACTIVITY;

FORMATION DYNAMICS; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; SELF-TRAPPED BEAMS; SOLITON-LIKE BEAMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 50449090956     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.001081     Document Type: Article

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