Saturation of third-harmonic generation in a plasma of self-induced optical breakdown due to the self-action of 80-fs light pulses

Optics Communications

Volumn 133, Issue 1-6, 1997, Pages 587-595

  Fedotov, A B ^a,b   Koroteev, N I ^b   Loy, M M T ^a   Xiao, X ^a   Zheltikov, A M ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLID STATE LASERS;

SELF-INDUCED OPTICAL BREAKDOWN; THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0030736052     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(96)00415-4     Document Type: Article

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