Miniaturized bending-free solitons by restoring symmetry in periodically biased photorefractives

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 2110-2112

  Ciattoni, Alessandro ^a,b   DelRe, Eugenio ^b   Rizza, Carlo ^b,c   Marini, Andrea ^b  

^a Laboratorio Regionale CASTI CNR INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; MODULATION; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS;

APPLIED BIAS VOLTAGE; EFFECTIVE NONLINEARITIES; INTENSITY PROFILES; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MODULATION PERIOD; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; OPTICAL DIFFRACTIONS; PROPAGATION DIRECTION;

SOLITONS;

EID: 54749105477     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.002110     Document Type: Article

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