Sensitive Measurement of Optical Nonlinearities Using a Single Beam

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 760-769

  Sheik Bahae, Mansoor ^a   Said, Ali A ^a   Wei, Tai Huei ^a   Hagan, David J ^a   Van Stryland, E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES--MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL TRANSMITTANCE;

LIGHT;

EID: 0025413944     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.53394     Document Type: Article

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