Origin of the saturation of the third-order optical nonlinear response of one-dimensional conjugated systems

Chemical Physics Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 471-475

  Verbandt, Y ^a,c   Thienpont, H ^a   Veretennicoff, I ^a   Geerlings, P ^a   Rikken, G L J A ^b,d  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

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EID: 0031591339     PISSN: 00092614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(97)00385-0     Document Type: Article

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