Intensity threshold in the conversion from reverse saturable absorption to saturable absorption and its application in optical limiting

Optics Communications

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 207-212

  Deng, Xiaoxu ^a   Zhang, Xueru ^a   Wang, Yuxiao ^a   Song, Yinglin ^a   Liu, Shutian ^a   Li, Chunfei ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; WAVE EQUATIONS;

OPTICAL LIMITING; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION (RSA);

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 0032646659     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00297-7     Document Type: Article

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