Ballistic attenuation of low-coherence optical fields

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 4469-4472

  Popescu, Gabriel ^a   Dogariu, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nd:YAG laser; Potassium pentaborate tetrahydrate; Sixth harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING;

BALLISTIC ATTENUATION;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0011483909     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004469     Document Type: Article

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