Numerical modeling of thermal refraction in liquids in the transient regime

Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 315-327

  Kovsh, Dmitriy I ^a   Hagan, David J ^a   Van Stryland, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL LIMITING; OPTICALLY INDUCED THERMO-OPTICAL EFFECTS; PULSE PROPAGATION AND SOLITONS; SELF-ACTION EFFECTS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0011919699     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.4.000315     Document Type: Article

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