Enhanced optical limiting and nonlinear absorption properties of azoarene-appended phosphorus (V) tetratolylporphyrins

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 36, 2002, Pages 7631-7636

  Desai, Narayana Rao ^a,b   Reddy, D Raghunath ^a   Maiya, Bhaskar G ^a   Dharmadhikari, Aditya K ^b   Kumar, G Ravindra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL MATERIALS;

OPTICAL LIMITING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037147569     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007631     Document Type: Article

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