Theoretical study of saturable Kerr nonlinearity using top-hat beam Z-scan technique

Optics Communications

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 322-327

  Gu, Bing ^a,b   Wang, Hui Tian ^b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Saturable Kerr nonlinearity; Saturation intensity; Top hat beam Z scan

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SATURABLE KERR NONLINEARITY; SATURATION INTENSITY; TOP-HAT BEAM Z-SCAN;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33745413397     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.01.053     Document Type: Article

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