self-action effect

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self-action effect [‚self ′ak·shən i‚fekt]

(optics)

In a medium with a third-order optical nonlinearity, the modification of the refractive index and absorption coefficient of a light field present in the medium by the strength of the light intensity, so that the light field effectively acts on itself.

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