Optical nonlinearities in As2Se3 chalcogenide glasses doped with Cu and Ag for pulse durations on the order of nanoseconds

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 8165-8172

  Ogusu, Kazuhiko ^a   Shinkawa, Kenta ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CHALCOGENIDES; COPPER; GLASS; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SILVER; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CUMULATIVE NONLINEARITY; FLUOROCARBON LIQUID; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHOTO DARKENING EFFECTS; THERMAL NONLINEARITIES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 66449117918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008165     Document Type: Article

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