Boundary conditions for optical rectification and application to degenerate four-wave mixing in a novel geometry

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1311-1317

  Spreiter, Rolf ^a   Bosshard, Christian ^a   Günter, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL RECTIFICATION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 0035646158     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001311     Document Type: Article

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