Experimental study of thermal lens features in laser ceramics

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 21012-21021

  Soloviev, Alexander ^a   Snetkov, Ilya ^a   Zelenogorsky, Victor ^a   Kozhevatov, Ilya ^a   Palashov, Oleg ^a   Khazanov, Efim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT;

CERAMIC SAMPLES; HIGH-ACCURACY; LASER CERAMICS; PHASE DISTORTIONS; PHASE-SHIFT INTERFEROMETER; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THERMALLY INDUCED; TRANSVERSE RESOLUTION;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CERAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LENSES; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 57349090295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021012     Document Type: Article

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