Measuring small absorptions by exploiting photothermal self-phase modulation

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 5391-5398

  Lastzka, Nico ^a   Steinlechner, Jessica ^a   Steinlechner, Sebastian ^a   Schnabel, Roman ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; SELF PHASE MODULATION;

ABSORBING MATERIALS; ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; INTENSITY-DEPENDENT; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957596623     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.005391     Document Type: Article

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