Stimulated Brillouin scattering phase-conjugated wave reflection from fused-silica glass without laser-induced damage

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2557-2562

  Yoshida, Hidetsugu ^a,b,d   Fujita, Hisanori ^a,e   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a,c,f,g,h   Yoshida, Kunio ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c SPIE ^*

^d JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^e Atomic Energy Society of Japan   (Japan)

^f KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^h Laser Society of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fused silica; Laser induced damage; Phase conjugation mirror; Stimulated Brillouin scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010196906     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601498     Document Type: Article

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