Irradiance dependence of the resonant nonlinearities in an organic material

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1376-1382

  Rangel Rojo, R ^a   Matsuda, H ^b   Kasai, H ^c   Nakanishi, H ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b NATL INST OF MAT AND CHEM RES   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRADIATION; LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; RESONANCE;

LASER SOURCES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0034417541     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.17.001376     Document Type: Article

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