Temporally resolved ring-shaped patterns beyond the phase-matching angle in the Stokes and anti-Stokes waves

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1672-1679

  Suzuki, Mitsutoshi ^a,b   Wada, Satoshi ^a   Tashiro, Hideo ^a  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

ANTI STOKES WAVES; GAUSS-LAGUERRE DECOMPOSITION METHOD; PHASE MATCHING ANGLE; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; STOKES WAVES;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0031193022     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001672     Document Type: Article

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