A bird's-eye view of nonlinear-optical processes: Unification through scale invariance

Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Kuzyk, Mark G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental limits; Hyperpolarizability; Nonlinear susceptibility; Scale invariance; Sum rules

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; HYPER-POLARIZABILITY; NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITIES; SCALE INVARIANCE; SUM RULE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 77950851966     PISSN: 15430537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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