SELF-FOCUSING AND DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT IN A NONLINEAR MEDIUM

Abstract

CONTENTS 1. Introduction 609 2. Geometrical Optics of a Nonlinear Medium (Equations, Focal Points, Nonlinear Aberrations, Nonstationary Processes) 617 3. Wave Optics of a Nonlinear Medium (Diffraction Corrections to the Self-focusing Length, Formation of Proper Optical Waveguide, Nonstationary Processes) 624 4. Nonlinear Optical Effects in the Field of Self-focusing Beams (Stimulated Scattering in Liquids, Experimental Data, Self-focusing and Parametric Amplification) 629 5. Conclusion (Unsolved Problems, Diffraction in Nonlinear Interactions) 632 Cited Literature 634

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DiffractionNonlinear systemOpticsNonlinear opticsNonlinear mediumPhysicsParametric statisticsScatteringField (mathematics)Nonlinear opticalQuantum mechanicsMathematics

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Year: 1968
Type: article
Volume: 10
Issue: 5
Pages: 609-636
Citations: 1043
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                                    S A Akhmanov, 
                                
                                    Anatolii P Sukhorukov, 
                                
                                    R. V. Khokhlov
                                
                            (1968). 
                            SELF-FOCUSING AND DIFFRACTION OF LIGHT IN A NONLINEAR MEDIUM. 
                            Soviet Physics Uspekhi
                            , 10
                            (5)
                            , 609-636.
                            https://doi.org/10.1070/pu1968v010n05abeh005849

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DOI: 10.1070/pu1968v010n05abeh005849