Energy transfer coupling of two-photon absorption and reverse saturable absorption for enhanced optical power limiting

Optics Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 1742-1744

  Joshi, Mukesh P ^a   Swiatkiewicz, J ^a   Xu, Faming ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a   Reinhardt, B A ^b   Kannan, Ram ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Curtiss Wright Controls Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHARGE TRANSFER; DYE LASERS; DYES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL POWER LIMITING FUNCTION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0032533052     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.23.001742     Document Type: Article

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