Measurements of nonlinear refractive index in scattering media

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12727-12735

  Samineni, Prathyush ^a   Perret, Zachary ^a   Warren, Warren S ^b   Fischer, Martin C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFRACTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY ENCODING; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING ENVIRONMENT; SCATTERING MEDIA; SHAPING TECHNIQUES; SPATIAL DOMAINS; Z-SCAN MEASUREMENT; Z-SCAN METHOD;

SCATTERING;

EID: 77953577637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012727     Document Type: Article

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