Pyroliton: Pyroelectric spatial soliton

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 22209-22216

  Safioui, Jassem ^a   Devaux, Fabrice ^a   Chauvet, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; POLARIZATION;

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; FERROELECTRIC CRYSTAL; LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTAL; MODERATE TEMPERATURE; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHOTO-REFRACTIVE; SPATIAL SOLITONS; TEMPERATURE RAISE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 72449171513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022209     Document Type: Article

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