Investigation of an optical limiting mechanism in multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1988-2001

  Sun, Xuan ^a   Xiong, Yuenan ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Lin, Jianyi ^a   Ji, Wei ^a   Lim, Jin Hong ^b   Yang, Sidney S ^b   Hagan, David J ^b   Van Stryland, Eric W ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; CARBON NANOTUBES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

PLASMA ABSORPTION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0001115857     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001998     Document Type: Article

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