Self-accelerating optical beams in highly nonlocal nonlinear media

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 23706-23715

  Bekenstein, Rivka ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

BEAM BENDING; BEAM TRAJECTORIES; FINITE APERTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MEDIA; NONLINEAR RANGES; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; OSCILLATORY TRAJECTORIES; PROPAGATION DYNAMICS; SELF-FOCUSING; SELF-TRAPPED BEAMS;

TRAJECTORIES;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ACCELERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 82055170216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023706     Document Type: Article

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