Bidirectional description of amplified spontaneous emission induced by three-photon absorption

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 385-393

  Baev, Alexander ^a   Kimberg, Viktor ^b   Polyutov, Sergey ^b   Gel'mukhanov, Faris ^b   Ågren, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTONS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; WAVE EQUATIONS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; CONVERSION COEFFICIENT; INTENSE LIGHT PULSES; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PUMP ENERGY; SEMICLASSICAL DYNAMIC THEORY; THREE PHOTON ABSORPTION;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 15044350805     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.000385     Document Type: Article

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