Screening-photovoltaic spatial solitons in biased two-photon photovoltaic photorefractive crystals

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-120

  Zhang, Guangyong ^a   Liu, Jinsong ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTALS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

DIFFUSION EFFECTS; DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PHOTOREFRACTIVE CRYSTAL; SCREENING-PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLITONS; SOLITON SOLUTIONS; SPATIAL SOLITONS; TWO-PHOTON PHOTOREFRACTIVE EFFECT;

SOLITONS;

EID: 59949101469     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000113     Document Type: Article

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