Ultrafast gaseous "half-wave plate"

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 7564-7570

  Bejot P ^a   Petit, Y ^a   Bonacina, L ^a   Kasparian, J ^a,b   Moret, M ^a   Wolf, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; POLARIZATION;

COPROPAGATING PROBE BEAM; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDICES;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 43849086470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.007564     Document Type: Article

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