Three-dimensional imaging using a femtosecond amplifying optical Kerr gate

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1758-1762

  Minoshima, Kaoru ^a   Yasui, Takeshi ^a   Abraham, Emmanuel ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^a   Jonusauskas, Gediminas ^b   Rulllère, Claude ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ANISOTROPY; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; EXCIMER LASERS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TITANIUM;

FEMTOSECOND OPENING TIME; LIGHT DIFFUSERS; OPTICAL KERR GATE; PERPENDICULAR INDUCED ANISOTROPY; SMALL SIGNAL OBJECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME RESOLVED IMAGING; TRANSIENT INDUCED ANISOTROPY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0033326587     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602229     Document Type: Article

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