Second-harmonic parametric scattering in ferroelectric crystals with disordered nonlinear domain structures

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 15868-15877

  Trull, Jose ^a   Cojocaru, Crina ^a   Fischer, Robert ^b   Saltiel, Solomon M ^b,c   Staliunas, Kestutis ^a   Herrero, Ramon ^a   Vilaseca, Ramon ^a   Neshev, Dragomir N ^b   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; HARMONIC GENERATION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FERROELECTRIC CRYSTALS; SECOND ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; STRONTIUM BARIUM NIOBATE (SBN); SUSCEPTIBILITY TENSORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 36749073310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015868     Document Type: Article

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