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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Transient mixed gratings induced by light in third-order nonlinear Kerr media

Daniel A. Erwin, Tomasz P. Jannson

Published Sep 22, 1995• 0 citations
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Abstract

Analysis is made of transient-grating reflection from a split- polarization device based on a Kerr medium with and without absorption. It is found that strong grating reflection, hence attenuation of high- intensity incident pulsed radiation, can occur when absorption is present.
DOI
10.1117/12.221247

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