Theoretical studies for special states of cascaded quadratic nonlinear effects

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1659-1666

  Liu, Xue Ming ^a   Zhang, Ming De ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS;

PHOTON FLUX;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0005268466     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001659     Document Type: Article

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