A comparison of a first-order thermal lensing model to a closed aperture Z-scan for the propagation of light in ocular media.

Rebecca L. Vincelette; Robert J. Thomas; Benjamin A. Rockwell; Ashley J. Welch

doi:10.1117/12.645445

1 March 2006 A comparison of a first-order thermal lensing model to a closed aperture Z-scan for the propagation of light in ocular media.

Rebecca L. Vincelette, Robert J. Thomas, Benjamin A. Rockwell, Ashley J. Welch

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Proceedings Volume 6084, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XVII; 60840G (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.645445
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

The phenomenon of thermal lensing was investigated in water using a Z-scan method and corresponding first-order mathematical models. Data from first-order thermal lensing models and ABCD beam propagation methods were used to simulate the non-linear absorption of water held in a thin sample cuvette for a Z-scan optical set up of CW cases at 1313 nm. The single beam closed aperture Z-scan was then used to determine the non-linear absorption at 1313 nm for water in 10 mm and 2 mm cuvettes at 48.00, 16.80, 9.80 and 2.83 mW then compared to the first-order model data. The results from the closed aperture Z-scan were also used to back calculate the spot size in the far field for comparison to the model's prediction of the beam's temporal response. Experimental Z-scan data were found not to correlate strongly with our first-order model suggesting the need for higher order models to successfully predict spot size in absorbing media inside the Rayleigh range.

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Rebecca L. Vincelette, Robert J. Thomas, Benjamin A. Rockwell, and Ashley J. Welch "A comparison of a first-order thermal lensing model to a closed aperture Z-scan for the propagation of light in ocular media.", Proc. SPIE 6084, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XVII, 60840G (1 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.645445

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