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Rejection of Fluorescence Background in Resonance and Spontaneous Raman Microspectroscopy
Published on: May 18, 2011
From higher-order Kerr nonlinearities to quantitative modeling of third and fifth harmonic generation in argon
1Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire CARNOT de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 5209 CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
Abstract:
The recent measurement of negative higher-order Kerr effect (HOKE) terms in gases has given rise to a controversial debate, fed by its impact on short laser pulse propagation. By comparing the experimentally measured yield of the third and fifth harmonics, with both an analytical and a full comprehensive numerical propagation model, we confirm the absolute and relative values of the reported HOKE indices.
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