Comparer des méthodes

	Z-scan	Méthode de Propagation de Faisceau
Domaine	Optique	Optique
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1990	1978
Auteur d'origine	Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, David Hagan, and Eric Van Stryland	Michael Feit and John Fleck
Type	Measurement technique	Paraxial propagation algorithm
Source fondatrice	Sheik-Bahae, M., Said, A. A., Wei, T. H., Hagan, D. J., & Van Stryland, E. W. (1990). Sensitive measurement of optical nonlinearities using a single beam. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 26(4), 760-769.	Feit, M. D., & Fleck, J. A. (1978). Light propagation in graded-index optical fibers. Applied Optics, 17(24), 3990-3998.
Alias	Z-scan method, nonlinear refraction measurement	BPM, paraxial approximation method
Apparentées	3	3
Résumé	The Z-scan technique is an experimental method for measuring nonlinear optical properties of materials, particularly third-order susceptibility and nonlinear absorption. Developed by Sheik-Bahae, Hagan, and Van Stryland in 1990, Z-scan uses a tightly focused laser beam and moves the sample along the beam propagation axis (z-axis), recording transmission variation to deduce nonlinear refraction and absorption coefficients with high sensitivity.	The Beam Propagation Method is a computational technique for simulating the propagation of optical beams through slowly varying, weakly guiding structures. Developed by Feit and Fleck in 1978, BPM exploits the paraxial approximation to reduce the full vector wave equation to a scalar or vector envelope equation, enabling efficient simulation of waveguides, integrated optics, and photonic devices.