Observation of Three-Photon Enhanced Four-Photon Absorption

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Yoshino, Fumiyo ^a   Polyakov, Sergey ^a   Liu, Mingguo ^a   Stegeman, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON RESONANCE; EXCITONS; MONOMERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

FOUR-PHOTON COEFFICIENT; INSTANTANEOUS RESONANT; PHOTON ABSORPTION; POLYDIACETYLENE;

ELECTRON ABSORPTION;

EID: 0141788138     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.063902     Document Type: Article

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