Nonlinear absorption of stilbazolium derivatives

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4462, Issue , 2002, Pages 17-23

  Sun, W ^a   Lawson, Chris M ^a   Gray, Gary M ^a   Zhan, Chuanlang ^b   Wang, Duoyuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Nonlinear absorption; Reverse saturable absorption; Saturable absorption; Singlet excited state absorption; Six energy level model; Stilbazolium derivatives; Triplet excited state absorption

Indexed keywords

DERIVATIVES; DYES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

NONLINEAR ABSORPTION; SINGLET EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0036396320     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452739     Document Type: Article

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