Stable self-focused beams in a photorefractive Bi12TiO 20 crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4993-4998

  Weidner, Evelin ^a   Kiessling, Armin ^a   Kowarschik, Richard ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOREACTIVITY; POLARIZATION;

BEAM BENDING; DRIFT MECHANISMS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE NONLINEAR OPTICS;

BISMUTH COMPOUNDS;

EID: 9144220317     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004993     Document Type: Article

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