Measurement of the thermal contribution to the nonlinear refractive index of air at 1064 nm

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 1192-1194

  Bentley, Sean J ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a   Butler, William E ^b   Melissinos, Adrian C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMAL NONLINEARITIES;

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0038002711     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.001192     Document Type: Article

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