Abstract
In this work we report on experimental and theoretical investigations of novel features of radiation transport in gases and discuss their significance for nonlinear optical processes in atomic media. Radiation diffusion is found to alter many nonlinear processes based on intensity dependent changes of level populations, to influence the timescales involved in experiments and to have drastic effects on the spatial distribution of extrinsic nonlinearities.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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