Third-harmonic generation with cylindrical Gaussian beams

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1964-1968

  Oron, Dan ^a   Silberberg, Yaron ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING;

CYLINDRICAL GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PHASE MATCHING GEOMETRY; THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 9244262480     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001964     Document Type: Article

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