Heavy fluorocarbon liquids for a phase-conjugated stimulated brillouin scattering mirror

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 3739-3744

  Yoshida, Hidetsugu ^a   Kmetik, Villiam ^a   Fujita, Hisanori ^a   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a   Yamanaka, Tatsuhiko ^a   Yoshida, Kunio ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fluorocarbon; Phase conjugation; Reflectivity; Stimulated Brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001312407     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003739     Document Type: Article

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