Femtosecond snapshot imaging of propagating light itself

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2308-2317

  Hosoda, Makoto ^a,b   Aoshima, Shinichiro ^a   Fujimoto, Masatoshi ^a   Tsuchiya, Yutaka ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ULTRAFAST IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037139958     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002308     Document Type: Article

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