Purely refractive transient energy transfer by stimulated Rayleigh-wing scattering

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 796-803

  Dogariu, A ^a   Xia, T ^a,c   Hagan, D J ^a   Said, A A ^a,d   Van Stryland, E W ^a   Bloembergen, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^d AccuPhotonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CURVE FITTING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DYNAMICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER PULSES; LIGHT; LIQUIDS; PHASE SHIFT; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AUTOCORRELATION; BEAM COUPLING; CARBON SULFIDE; CHIRP; KERR LIQUID; STIMULATED RAYLEIGH WING SCATTERING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0031119266     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.000796     Document Type: Article

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