Optical pump-and-probe test system for thermal characterization of thin metal and phase-change films

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3167-3173

  Watabe, Kazuo ^a,b   Polynkin, Pavel ^a   Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; LASER PULSES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THIN FILMS;

MATERIAL PROCESSING; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS (PBS); THERMAL CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRAFAST THERMAL DYNAMICS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 20544465439     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003167     Document Type: Article

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