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Optical Kerr Effect

Optical Kerr Effect is a nonlinear optical phenomenon in which the refractive index of a material changes in proportion to the square of the electric field intensity of the incident light, resulting in intensity-dependent phase modulation of the light wave.

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Zin Lin, Hamidreza Ramezani, Toni Eichelkraut et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2011 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Characterization of arbitrary femtosecond pulses using frequency-resolved optical gating

Daniel J. Kane, Rick Trebino · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 1993 · 857 citations

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Temporal cavity solitons in one-dimensional Kerr media as bits in an all-optical buffer

François Léo, Stéphane Coen, Pascal Kockaert et al. · Nature Photonics · 2010 · 815 citations

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Tobias J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, Kerry J. Vahala · Physical Review Letters · 2004 · 720 citations

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Phase noise in photonic communications systems using linear amplifiers

J. P. Gordon, L. F. Mollenauer · Optics Letters · 1990 · 660 citations

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    M. D. Fayer

    Stanford University, United States

    27 publications · 1.4K citations

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    Anjan Biswas

    King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

    25 publications · 1.2K citations

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    Klaas Wynne

    University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

    18 publications · 1.2K citations

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    Milivoj R. Belić

    Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

    17 publications · 922 citations

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    Roberto Righini

    University of Florence, Italy

    17 publications · 744 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    41 h-index

    426 publications

    21.6K citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    33 h-index

    181 publications

    8.8K citations

  3. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    27 h-index

    103 publications

    8.6K citations

  4. Lomonosov Moscow State University

    Moscow, Russia

    26 h-index

    138 publications

    6.4K citations

  5. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    26 h-index

    125 publications

    6.1K citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    24 h-index

    71 publications

    5.6K citations

  7. University of Florence

    Florence, Italy

    21 h-index

    80 publications

    2.8K citations

  8. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

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    76 publications

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 111 publications · 12.3K citations

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  2. Optics Letters

    204 publications · 11.4K citations

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  3. Applied Physics Letters

    135 publications · 7.2K citations

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  4. Optics Express

    136 publications · 6.4K citations

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  5. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    105 publications · 5.7K citations

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