Abstract
Level shifts and population changes induced by intense short light pulses lead to rapid modifications of either the absorption or refraction indices of a medium. Several aspects of these optical Kerr nonlinearities and their effects cm beam characteristics along its propagation direction have been extensively addressed in the literature. In contrast, little has been done to exploit such light-mediated mechanisms to rapidly modify transverse characteristics of a beam.
© 1992 Optical Society of America
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