Pulse-width dependence of optical nonlinearities in As2Se 3 chalcogenide glass in the picosecond-to-nanosecond region

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18230-18240

  Shinkawa, Kenta ^a   Ogusu, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CHALCOGENIDES; GLASS; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CUMULATIVE NONLINEARITY; FLUOROCARBON LIQUID; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; THERMAL NONLINEARITIES; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 55349142145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018230     Document Type: Article

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