Infrared to ultraviolet measurements of two-photon absorption and n2 in wide bandgap solids

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1324-1333

  DeSalvo, Richard ^a,b,c   Said, Ali A ^b   Hagan, David J ^a,b   Van Stryland, Eric W ^a,b   Sheik Bahae, Mansoor ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c National Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

INORGANIC DIELECTRIC SOLIDS; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0030211603     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.511545     Document Type: Article

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