Series Solution for Steady-state Self-focusing with Saturating Non-linearity
- 1 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Optica Acta: International Journal of Optics
- Vol. 19 (8) , 693-699
- https://doi.org/10.1080/713818632
Abstract
We have made a theoretical study of self-focusing of an electromagnetic wave in a medium with saturating non-linearity. Explicit conditions for focusing and defocusing have been obtained. All results have been obtained by taking into account the effects of diffraction.Keywords
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