Passive optical limiting of picosecond-nanosecond laser pulses using highly nonlinear organic liquid cored fiber array

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 760-768

  Khoo, Iam Choon ^a,b   Diaz, Andres ^b   Wood, Michael V ^b   Chen, Pao Hsu ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber array; Nanosecond pulsed laser; Nonlinear liquids; Optical limiting; Simulations; Thermal and density effects; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

FIBER ARRAYS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 0035466350     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.979336     Document Type: Article

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