Optical nonlinearity in Ar and N2 near the ionization threshold

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Wahlstrand, J K ^a   Cheng, Y H ^a   Chen, Y H ^a   Milchberg, H M ^a  

^a The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS TARGETS; IONIZATION THRESHOLDS; LASER INTENSITIES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PLASMA GENERATION; ROTATIONAL COMPONENT;

ARGON; IONIZATION OF GASES; NITROGEN; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ARGON LASERS;

EID: 80052209379     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.103901     Document Type: Article

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