Nonlinear optical beam propagation for optical limiting

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 5168-5180

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVE EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0033175480     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005168     Document Type: Article

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