Time-resolved picosecond optical nonlinearity and all-optical Kerr gate in poly (3-hexadecylthiophene)

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2166-2168

  Gomes, A S L ^a   Demenicis, Luciene ^a   Petrov, D V ^a   De Araújo, Cid B ^a   De Melo, Celso P ^a   Souto Maior, Rosa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

CHLOROFORM; PICOSECOND RESPONSE; POLYHEXADECYLTHIOPHENE; Z SCAN TECHNIQUE;

AROMATIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0030573842     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.117153     Document Type: Article

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