saturable
- adjective
- /ˈsætʃərəbəl/
- Specialized
- In physics, a saturable material can only absorb a finite amount of energy before it reaches its limit.
- saturable medium
- saturable nonlinear
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Just like a Kerr medium, a saturable medium acts as a focusing lens at high intensities.
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They conjectured that the effects were due to the saturable nature of the optical nonlinearity.
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Similar effects have been seen in saturable media such as carbon disulfide and photorefractives.
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Other researchers reached similar conclusions for other forms of saturable nonlinearities in plasmas.
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It provides a simple explanation of why self-trapped circular beams are stable in a saturable nonlinear medium.
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Collisions in saturable nonlinear media are much richer than those in Kerr media and consequently are more interesting, primarily for two reasons.
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Avid and saturable uptake of modified glucocerebrosidase was found, which indicates high-affinity targeting to the macrophage system in vivo.
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Collisions in Kerr media exhibit several important differences in their outcome vis-à-vis collision processes in saturable nonlinear media.
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The picoREGEN series is based on direct diode pumping realized with user-replaceable diode modules and semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror modelocking.
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Solitons in (2+1) dimensions in saturable nonlinear media offer an opportunity to examine collisions of solitons with three-dimensional trajectories.
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Surface Forms
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Etymology
The word saturable comes from the Latin root satur meaning 'full' and the verb saturare meaning 'to fill', and you can see the same idea in saturate. So something saturable is 'able to be filled' — once it is full, adding more has no effect.