Three-photon absorption and nonlinear refraction of BaMgF4 in the ultraviolet region

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 5432-5437

  Ma, Yanzhi ^a,b   Chen, Junjie ^a,b   Zheng, Yuanlin ^a,b   Chen, Xianfeng ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State Key Lab on Fiber Optic Local Area Commun Networks and Advanced Optical Commun Systems   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AXES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; THREE PHOTON ABSORPTION; ULTRAVIOLET REGION; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 84864571428     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.005432     Document Type: Article

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