Nanosecond reverse saturable absorption and optical limiting in (Me 4N)2[Cd(dmit)(Sph)2]

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1464-1468

  Sun, Zhenrong ^a   Tong, Minghong ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a   Ding, Liangen ^a   Wang, Zugeng ^a   Dai, Jie ^b   Bian, Guoqing ^b   Xu, Zhizhan ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUND STATE; LASER PULSES; LENSES;

OPTICAL LIMITING;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 0035617337     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.18.001464     Document Type: Article

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