Pulse-by-pulse method to characterize partially coherent pulse propagation in instantaneous nonlinear media

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14979-14991

  Lajunen, Hanna ^a   Torres Company, Víctor ^b   Lancis, Jesús ^c   Silvestre, Enrique ^a   Andrés, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIA; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COHERENCE FUNCTION; COHERENCE PROPERTIES; GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; NON-LINEAR MEDIA; NONLINEAR KERR MEDIA; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PULSE METHODS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84886948793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014979     Document Type: Article

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