Keyword

self-defocusing

Description: A nonlinear optical effect in which a medium causes an intense beam to spread or diverge, often examined in wave propagation and photonics.

Primary topic: Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (33%)

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Self-focusing and self-defocusing by cascaded second-order effects in KTP

1992 · R. DeSalvo, H. Vanherzeele, et al. · Optics Letters · 674

Steady-State Spatial Screening Solitons in Photorefractive Materials with External Applied Field

1994 · Mordechai Segev, George C. Valley, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 665

Dark and bright photovoltaic spatial solitons

1994 · George C. Valley, Mordechai Segev, et al. · Physical Review A · 389

Two Photon Absorption, Nonlinear Refraction, And Optical Limiting In Semiconductors

1985 · Eric W. Van Stryland, H. Vanherzeele, et al. · Optical Engineering · 389

cw Self-Focusing and Self-Trapping of Light in Sodium Vapor

1974 · J. E. Bjorkholm, A. A. Ashkin · Physical Review Letters · 321

Self-Accelerating Self-Trapped Optical Beams

2011 · Ido Kaminer, Mordechai Segev, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 261

Stable (2+1)-dimensional solitons in a layered medium with sign-alternating Kerr nonlinearity

2002 · Isaac Towers, Boris A. Malomed · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · 257

Self-Focusing and Defocusing in Waveguide Arrays

2001 · R. Morandotti, H. S. Eisenberg, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 243

Pattern formation in a passive Kerr cavity

1994 · A.J Scroggie, W.J Firth, et al. · Chaos Solitons & Fractals · 242

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Spatial Soliton Pixels in Semiconductor Devices

1997 · M. Brambilla, L. A. Lugiato, et al. · Physical Review Letters · 241

Effect of low-power nonlinear refraction on laser-beam propagation in InSb

1979 · D. Weaire, B. S. Wherrett, et al. · Optics Letters · 228

Spatial solitons in semiconductor microcavities

1998 · L. Spinelli, G. Tissoni, et al. · Physical Review A · 222

Do Solitonlike Self-Similar Waves Exist in Nonlinear Optical Media?

2006 · Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Govind P. Agrawal · Physical Review Letters · 209

Third-order nonlinear optical properties of Mn doped ZnO thin films under cw laser illumination

2012 · K.K. Nagaraja, S. Pramodini, et al. · Optical Materials · 200

Pulse splitting during self-focusing in normally dispersive media

1992 · Joshua E. Rothenberg · Optics Letters · 197

Nonlinear mechanisms of filamentation in broad-area semiconductor lasers

1996 · J.R. Marciante, G.P. Agrawal · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 196

Screening-photovoltaic spatial solitons in biased photovoltaic–photorefractive crystals and their self-deflection

1999 · Liu Jinsong, Lu Keqing · Journal of the Optical Society of America B · 189

Observation of the kinetic condensation of classical waves

2012 · Can Sun, Shu Jia, et al. · Nature Physics · 152

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Optical limiting in GaAs

1985 · T. Boggess, A. Smirl, et al. · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 151

Solitary pulses in an amplified nonlinear dispersive medium

1989 · P. A. Bélanger, L. Gagnon, et al. · Optics Letters · 142

Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Behavior of an Amide-Tricarboxylate Zinc(II) Metal–Organic Framework with Two-Fold 3D+3D Interpenetration

2021 · Reza Abazari, Elnaz Yazdani, et al. · Inorganic Chemistry · 141

High-order harmonic generation from silver plasma

2005 · R.A. Ganeev, M. Baba, et al. · Physics Letters A · 141

Z-scan determination of the third-order optical nonlinearity of a triphenylmethane dye using 633nm He–Ne laser

2006 · T. Geethakrishnan, P.K. Palanisamy · Optics Communications · 139

Ionization-induced defocusing of intense laser pulses in high-pressure gases

1993 · S.C. Rae · Optics Communications · 129

Third- and fifth-order optical nonlinearities in organic materials

1994 · A.A. Said, C. Wamsley, et al. · Chemical Physics Letters · 126

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