A review of optical limiting mechanisms and devices using organics, fullerenes, semiconductors and other materials

Progress in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 299-338

  Tutt, Lee W ^a   Boggess, Thomas F ^b  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMITERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSES; OPTICAL LIMITING MECHANISMS; PASSIVE OPTICAL LIMITING DEVICES;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0027849805     PISSN: 00796727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0079-6727(93)90004-S     Document Type: Review

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1. Passive Mode-Locking with Reverse Saturable Absorption
2. Application of the BaTiO_3 beam-fanning optical limiter as an adaptive spatial filter for signal enhancement in pulsed infrared laser-excited photothermal spectroscopy
3. Evaluation Of Passive Optical Limiters And Switches
4. Characteristics Of Nonlinear Optical Materials For Use In Optical Limiting
5. Evaluation of thermal defocusing, nonlinear scattering, and nonlinear quarter-wave stack switches
6. Material requirements for optical limiting
7. Nonlinear absorption of light: Optical saturation of electronic transitions in organic molecules with high intensity laser radiation
8. Simultaneous measurement of the two-photon coefficient and free-carrier cross section above the bandgap of crystalline silicon
9. Nondegenerate two-photon absorption in zinc blende semiconductors
10. Nonlinearities in semiconductors for optical limiting
11. Optical nonlinearities and optical limiting in GaP at 532 nm
12. Analytical description of a nonlinear optical power limiter
13. ?External? self-focusing of light by a nonlinear layer
14. Optical limiting with semiconductors
15. Passive Broadband High Dynamic Range Semiconductor Limiters
16. Kramers-Kronig relation between n2 and two-photon absorption
17. Simple Analysis And Geometric Optimization Of A Passive Optical Limiter Based On Internal Self-Action
18. Nonlinear refraction and optical limiting in [quotation mark]thick[quotation mark] media
19. High-sensitivity, single-beam n_2 measurements
20. Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen
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22. Performance optimization of photorefractive excisors
23. Enhancing the response time for photorefractive beam fanning
24. Optical Limiter Including Optical Convergence and Absorbing Body with Inhomogenous Distribution of Reverse Saturable Absorption
25. Self-protecting semiconductor optical limiters
26. Self-protecting optical limiters using cascading geometries
27. Temporal And Spatial Characterization Of Optical Breakdown In A Suspension Of Small Absorbing Particles
28. Nonlinear optical properties of carbon-black suspensions (ink)
29. Reverse saturable absorbers: indanthrone and its derivatives
30. Optical Limiting In Solutions Of Metallo-Phthalocyanines And Naphthalocyanines
31. Reverse saturable absorption in metal cluster compounds
32. Nonlinear optical interactions in II-VI semiconductors and displacive ferroelectrics
33. Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics
34. Picosecond measurements of optical nonlinearities in King's complex and synthesized analogues
35. Electrochemical detection of C606- and C706-: Enhanced stability of fullerides in solution
36. Lanthanum complexes of spheroidal carbon shells
37. Triplet excited state behavior of fullerenes: pulse radiolysis and laser flash photolysis of fullerenes (C60 and C70) in benzene
38. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Buckminsterfullerene Solutions
39. Three-Photon Stepwise Optical Limiting in Silicon
40. Optical limiting in GaAs
41. Single-beam and multiple-beam optical limiters using semiconductors
42. Kramers-Kronig relation between n2 and two-photon absorption
43. Degenerate four-wave mixing measurements of high order nonlinearities in semiconductors
44. Optical nonlinearities and optical limiting in GaP at 532 nm
45. Organic And Polymeric Materials For Non Linear Devices
46. Nonlinear Optical Response in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
47. Nonlinear birefringence of nematic liquid crystals
48. Nonlinear optics of liquid crystals
49. Picosecond-millisecond optical nonlinearities of liquid crystals for limiting and switching applications
50. Optically-induced molecular reorientation in nematic liquid crystals and nonlinear optical processes in the nanoseconds regime
51. Nonlinear optical Properties of Liquid Crystals In The Isotropic Phase