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Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials
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Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials

by Detlev Ristau
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
551 pages
23h 57m
English
CRC Press
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85Self-Focusing and Nonlinear Effects
Chapter 4
3. For electron–hole plasma eects, the major absorption process is the one-photon
absorption due to electron–phonon–photon collisions in the conduction band.
Probability of the absorption scales linearly with laser irradiance, but density of the
absorbing particles (that are conduction-band electrons) starts with almost zero and
signicantly grows during the ionization process. erefore, the major contribution
to nonlinear scaling of R is done by the term n of Equation 4.3.
In the following, we consider each of the contributions to nonlinear absorption bearing in
mind that those three processes ...
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ISBN: 9781439872161