Self-focusing and self-defocusing of femtosecond pulses with cascaded quadratic nonlinearities

Topics in Applied Physics

Volumn 114, Issue , 2009, Pages 481-506

  Wise, Frank W ^a   Moses, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

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EID: 58049174873     PISSN: 03034216     EISSN: 14370859     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-34727-1_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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