Thermal lensing in barium nitrate due to stimulated Raman scattering of nanosecond laser pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4751, Issue , 2002, Pages 355-359

  Vodchits, Alexander I ^a   Kozich, Valery P ^a   Apanasevich, Pavel A ^a   Orlovich, Valentin A ^a  

^a B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Barium nitrate; Nanosecond laser radiation; Refractive nonlinearity; Stimulated Raman scattering; Thermal lensing; Thermal nonlinearity; Z scan technique

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HELIUM NEON LASERS; LASER PULSES; LENSES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

THERMAL NONLINEARITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0036420902     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.475933     Document Type: Conference Paper

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