Photosensitivity control of an isotropic medium through polarization of light pulses with tilted intensity front

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20657-20664

  Kazansky, Peter G ^a   Shimotsuma, Yasuhiko ^b   Sakakura, Masaaki ^b   Beresna, Martynas ^a   Gecevičius, Mindaugas ^a   Svirko, Yuri ^c   Akturk, Selcuk ^d   Qiu, Jianrong ^e,f   Miura, Kiyotaka ^b   Hirao, Kazuyuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POLARIZATION;

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; ISOTROPIC MEDIUM; LIGHT PULSE; LIGHT-INDUCED ANISOTROPY; MATERIAL PROCESSING; MUTUAL ORIENTATION; PULSE-FRONT TILT; PULSED LIGHT BEAMS; ULTRA-SHORT LIGHT PULSE; UNIFORM ILLUMINATION;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; HEAT; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE;

ANISOTROPY; HOT TEMPERATURE; LASERS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80053943297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020657     Document Type: Article

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