Applied Physics Letters · 1973 · 24 citations · 6 references
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This letter reports experiments that used a mode-locked TEA CO2 laser to modulate a cw He–Ne laser. This technique uses the optical Kerr effect in CS2. The optical Kerr coefficient, n2, at 10.6 μm is estimated from our data to be approximately 10−20 m2/V2.
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