Three-dimensional laser simulation code on a desktop personal computer: Nonlinear propagation and Fresnel distribution

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 131-140

  Bontoux, Thierry ^a   Kato, Yoshinori ^a   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D computation; Fast Fourier transform; Fresnel distribution; Optical propagation equation; Picosecond pulse; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042877957     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602272     Document Type: Article

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