Direct backward third-harmonic generation in nanostructures

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7397-7406

  Chang, Chieh Feng ^a   Chen, Hsing Chao ^a   Chen, Miin Jang ^a   Liu, Wei Rein ^b   Hsieh, Wen Feng ^b   Hsu, Chia Hung ^b,c   Chen, Chao Yu ^a   Chang, Fu Hsiung ^a   Yu, Che Hang ^a   Sun, Chi Kuang ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORWARD SCATTERING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BACK-SCATTERED; CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; FAST COMPUTATION; NANO FILMS; THIRD HARMONIC; WAVEVECTOR MISMATCH; ZNO THIN FILM;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 77950218952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007397     Document Type: Article

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