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A user-friendly beam propagation program has been developed for use over the worldwide- web to aid the optical limiting community in modeling the transmission of light through nonlinear refractive and absorptive media having local intensity-dependent or nonlocal fluencedependent mechanisms.
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We are grateful to Gregg Anderson (Material Directorate, Wright Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB Ohio 45433-6533) for providing guidance, and James Shirk (US. Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5613, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, DC. 20375) for suggesting improvements. This research was supported by funds supplied from the US. Air Force under Contract No. F33615-92-D-5000 through Subcontract Number 96-5000-71-1 from Anteon Corporation. The research results and the interpretation thereof do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of either the Government or Anteon and represent those of the authors of this publication.
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Swartzlander, G.A., Deykoon, A.M., Jackson, D.W. et al. Numerical Modeling of Nonlinear Beam Propagation Phenomena. MRS Online Proceedings Library 479, 269–278 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-479-269
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