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The title has been chosen to convey the idea that the past decade for the field of nonlinear optics has been most exciting in a scientific sense, but that the major technological challenges will still be with us in the foreseeable future. The title does not imply, however, that there will be no scientific future nor that in the past no optical technology has been developed.
This paper is based on a lecture given at a symposium of the American Institute of Physics, New York September 30, 1969 and at the Summer Workshop “Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena,” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, June 1969.
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Bloembergen, N. (1971). Nonlinear Optics, Scientific Past and Technological Future. In: Schwarz, H.J., Hora, H. (eds) Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0901-7_21
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