Streak camera investigation of the self-focusing onset in glass
- 1 October 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 25 (7), 408-411
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1655528
Abstract
The onset of self‐focusing in a glass sample has been studied with a streak camera. After passing through the sample, the beam is no longer focused by a subsequent lens into a nearly diffraction‐limited spot, but rather into a time‐dependent ring. A simple model explains these results and indicates practical limitations for uniformly illuminating small targets with a Nd:glass laser chain.Keywords
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