Cascaded optical nonlinearities: Microscopic understanding as a collective effect

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1977-1983

  Khurgin, Jacob B ^a   Obeidat, A ^a   Lee, S J ^a   Ding, Yujie J ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031487440     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001977     Document Type: Article

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