High-dynamic-range cascaded-focus optical limiter

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 1180-1182

  Hernandez F E ^a   Yang, S ^a   Van Stryland, E W ^a   Hagan, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL LIMITERS;

CARBON DISULFIDE; ELECTROSTRICTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIMITERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0043028815     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.001180     Document Type: Article

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