Accurate determination of two-photon absorption coefficients in fused silica and crystalline quartz at 264 nm

Optics Communications

Volumn 187, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 185-191

  Chróinín, Joanne Ní ^a   Dragomir, Adrian ^a   McInerney, John G ^a   Nikogosyan, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FUSED SILICA; GLASS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONS; QUARTZ; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION (TPA) COEFFICIENT;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0342972909     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)01095-6     Document Type: Article

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