Laser beam smoothing caused by the small-spatial-scale B integral

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 7-17

  Marozas, J A ^a   Regan, S P ^a   Kelly, J H ^a   Meyerhofer, D D ^a   Seka, W ^a   Skupsky, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; HIGH POWER LASERS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPECKLE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

SPATIOTEMPORAL MEASUREMENTS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0141788292     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000007     Document Type: Article

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