Nonlinear refraction and absorption: Mechanisms and magnitudes

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-200

  Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^a   Khoo, Iam Choon ^b   Salamo, Gregory J ^c   Stegeman, George I ^a   Van Stryland, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1364/AOP.2.000060     Document Type: Review

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