Third-harmonic Rayleigh scattering: Theory and experiment

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2402-2408

  Shcheslavskiy, Vladislav I ^a,b   Saltiel, Solomon M ^c   Faustov, Alexey ^a   Petrov, Georgi I ^a   Yakovlev, Vladislav V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FOCUSED BEAMS; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 28044441153     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.002402     Document Type: Article

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