Rhodium-Doped Barium Titanate Nonlinear Mirror for High Beam Quality Pulsed Nd : YAG Lasers

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2050-2058

  Brignon, Arnaud ^a   Huignard, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a Thomson rsf   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Laser beam distortion; Neodymium : Yag lasers; Nonlinear optics; Phase conjugation; Photorefractive materials devices; Q switched lasers

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

NONLINEAR MIRRORS;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0033356747     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.805920     Document Type: Article

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