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Self-Action of Light Beams Caused by Resonant Interaction with the Medium

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One of the most universal manifestations of third-order nonlinear optical interactions in general and resonant interactions in particular is the formation of the so-called nonlinear (or intensity-dependent) refractive index.

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    Professor Dr. Valerii S. Butylkin

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    Professor Dr. Yury G. Khronopulo

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, John Hopkins University, Barton Hall, 21218, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Professor Dr. Alexander E. Kaplan

  4. Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Ul’yanova Street, 46, SU-603600, Gorkii, USSR

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Butylkin, V.S., Khronopulo, Y.G., Kaplan, A.E., Yakubovich, E.I. (1989). Self-Action of Light Beams Caused by Resonant Interaction with the Medium. In: Resonant Nonlinear Interactions of Light with Matter. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68891-1_8

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