Interaction of self-trapped beams in high index glass

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 17150-17155

  D'Asaro, Elena ^a,b   Heidari Bateni, Schirin ^a   Pasquazi, Alessia ^c   Assanto, Gaetano ^a   Gonzalo, José ^d   Solis, Javier ^c   Afonso, Carmen N ^d  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; METALS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

COHERENT INTERACTION; DINGER EQUATION; ENERGY EXCHANGES; HEAVY METAL OXIDE GLASS; MULTI-PHOTON ABSORPTION; RELATIVE PHASE; SELF-TRAPPED BEAMS; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

GLASS;

EID: 70349222719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017150     Document Type: Article

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