On the propagation of an optical wave in a photorefractive medium

Brigitte Bidégaray-Fesquet (1) , Jean-Claude Saut (2)

1 EDP - Equations aux Dérivées Partielles
2 LM-Orsay - Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay

The aim of this paper is first to review the derivation of a model describing the propagation of an optical wave in a photorefractive medium and to present various mathematical results on this model: Cauchy problem, solitary waves.

Keywords: Photorefractive media; Cauchy problem; solitary waves

Domains: Analysis of PDEs [math.AP]

Brigitte Bidégaray-Fesquet, Jean-Claude Saut. On the propagation of an optical wave in a photorefractive medium. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 2007, 17 (11), pp.1883-1904. ⟨10.1142/S0218202507002509⟩. ⟨hal-00135644v2⟩