Enhancement of ultrafast four-wave mixing in a polar molecule medium

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7216-7223

  Yang, Weifeng ^a,b   Gong, Shangqing ^a   Xu, Zhizhan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER THEORY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

LOW INTENSITY PULSES; PERMANENT DIPOLE MOMENTS (PDM); TWO-LEVEL POLAR MOLECULE MEDIUM; ULTRAFAST FOUR-WAVE MIXING (FWM);

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746870043     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007216     Document Type: Article

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