Third harmonic generation in self-focused filaments in liquids

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4857-4862

  Guilin, Mao ^a   Yeheng, Wu ^a   Singer, Kenneth D ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE MODULATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVELENGTH;

CONTINUUM GENERATION; PHASE-LOCKING MODEL; SELF-FOCUSED FILAMENTS; SELF-PHASE MODULATION;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 34247240552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004857     Document Type: Article

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