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Breakdown of the Slowly Varying Amplitude Approximation: Generation of Backward Traveling Second Harmonic Light

John Zachary Sanborn, Charles Hellings, and T.D. Donnelly

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Abstract

By numerically solving the nonlinear field equations we study how a laser pulse interacts with a nonlinear medium without making the usual slowly-varying- amplitude approximation. This interaction results in a measurable backward traveling second harmonic wave.

© 2001 Optical Society of America

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