Nonlinear birefringence due to non-resonant, higher-order Kerr effect in isotropic media

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6387-6399

  Stegeman, George ^a,b,c   Papazoglou, Dimitris G ^a,d   Boyd, Robert ^e,f   Tzortzakis, Stelios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERR ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECT; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

ARBITRARY FREQUENCIES; HIGH INTENSITY; HIGHER ORDER; INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS; ISOTROPIC MEDIA; KERR COEFFICIENT; KERR EFFECTS; KERR NONLINEARITY; LINEAR EXTRAPOLATION; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONRESONANT; PUMP BEAMS; WEAK PROBE BEAM;

BIREFRINGENCE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79953212631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006387     Document Type: Article

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