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Quantum electronics: a treatise. Volume I. Nonlinear optics, Part A

Herbert Rabin, Carson L. Tang

Published Jan 1, 1975• 11 citations
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Unified discussions are presented of major quantum electronics topics including theory and measurement of nonlinear optical susceptibilities, two-photon absorption spectroscopy, stimulated Mandelstam--Brillouin process, spontaneous and stimulated parametric processes, and the stimulated Raman process. (JFP)

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