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Focusing a Gaussian beam into a nonlinear crystal
Boyd analyzes in his book (Boyd's book), section 2.10.3, the case of harmonic generation using a focused Gaussian beam and he mentions that an analytic solution can be evaluated for certain special ...
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"Lack of inversion symmetry" in crystal?
Apparently (first paragraph of this article) the lack of inversion symmetry is some crystals allows all sort of nonlinear optic phenomena.
Now. Does anyone know of an intuitive or just physical ...
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Dichroism in uniaxial crystals
I need a same help with it. Some books where i can find a real math explanation of this effect will be good help!!
simple exp of this effect will be good too)
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