Optical nonlinearity resulting from a light-induced structural transition in gallium nanoparticles

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1087-1089

  MacDonald, K F ^a   Fedotov, V A ^a   Zheludev, N I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTONS;

OPTICAL NONLINEARITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037450212     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1543644     Document Type: Article

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