Nonlinear optical response of colloidal suspensions

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10277-10289

  Lee, W M ^a   El Ganainy, R ^b   Christodoulides, D N ^b   Dholakia, K ^a,c   Wright, E M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS DYNAMICS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; EXPONENTIAL MODELS; KERR MEDIUM; NON-IDEAL GAS; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; SECOND VIRIAL COEFFICIENTS; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 66849132415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010277     Document Type: Article

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