Discussion

On the paper by N B Baranova, M A Bolshtyanskii, and B Ya Zel'dovich ‘Adiabatic energy transfer from a pump wave to its second harmonic’

V. G. Dmitriev

Polyus Research and Development Institute named after M. F. Stel'makh, Moscow

Abstract: The paper cited in the title is criticised. It is claimed that the authors of this paper are not acquainted with some of the fundamental work of R V Khokhlov and his successors in the field of nonlinear optics and harmonic generation.

PACS: 42.65.Ky

Received: 01.01.1996

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1996, 26:6, 559–561

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