Nonlinear phase shift resulting from two-color multistep cascading

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 959-965

  Saltiel, Solomon ^a   Koynov, Kaloian ^a   Deyanova, Yana ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFT;

MULTISTEP CASCADING;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0034401818     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.000959     Document Type: Article

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