Title

Laser system for investigation of nonlinear properties of optical materials

Authors

Authors

I. A. Bubnov; O. M. Efimov; L. B. Glebov; Y. A. Matveev; A. M. Mekryukov; V. S. Popikov; M. J. Soileau;A. I. Stepanov

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Keywords

lasers; nonlinear properties; optical materials; Optics

Abstract

An Nd:glass laser system is described that enables smoothly varying the pulse duration of single-frequency laser radiation in the range from 0.2 to 30 ns and focusing the beam to spot sizes from 0.4 mu m at high reproducibility of spectral and spatial-temporal parameters of radiation. This laser system is used to examine the nonlinear photoinduced processes and laser-induced damage in chalcogenide glasses under high-power laser radiation in the near-IR spectral range. It is found that photoinduced losses (absorption and scattering) are produced in chalcogenide glasses by high-power laser radiation with photon energy hv Optical Engineering

Journal Title

Optical Engineering

Volume

36

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Document Type

Article

Language

English

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1997XD38800014

ISSN

0091-3286

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