Green's function formulation for third-harmonic generation microscopy

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1604-1610

  Cheng, Ji Xin ^a   Xie, X Sunney ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHASE SHIFT; RAMAN SCATTERING;

RADIATION PATTERN;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0141453297     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.001604     Document Type: Article

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