Evolutions of polarization and nonlinearities in an isotropic nonlinear medium

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8144-8149

  Liu, Zhi Bo ^a   Yan, Xiao Qing ^a   Zhou, Wen Yuan ^a   Tian, Jian Guo ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

ISOTROPIC NONLINEAR MEDIUM; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 44649089350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008144     Document Type: Article

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