Bottleneck optical pulse limiters revisited

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 566-570

  Miles, Perry ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULES;

EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION CROSS SECTION; GROUND STATE DEPLETION; MOLECULAR EXCITATION; OPTICAL PULSE LIMITERS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0033585202     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000566     Document Type: Article

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