Analytical expression for femtosecond-pulsed z scans on instantaneous nonlinearity

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1187-1192

  Gu, Bing ^a   Ji, Wei ^b   Huang, Xiao Qin ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; CARBON; CARBON DISULFIDE; GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; CHALCONE DERIVATIVES; GAUSSIAN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; HYPERBOLIC SECANT; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 49249138300     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001187     Document Type: Article

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