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Publication
Physics Letters A
Paper
Sign of slow non-linearities in non-absorbing optical media
Abstract
It is shown, through a thermodynamic argument, that mechanisms producing a refractive index charge which is sensitive to energy density and takes many optical cycles to take effect, can only produce an increase in the index. © 1967.