Reverse saturable absorption and anti-stokes fluorescence in mesoionic compounds pumped at 532 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1389-1395

  Rakov, Nikifor ^a,b   De Araújo, Cid B ^a,b   Rocha, Gerd B ^a,c   Simas, Alfredo M ^a,c   Athayde Filho, Petrônio A F ^d   Miller, Joseph ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b The Departamento de Fisica   (China)

^c The Departmento de Quimica Fundamental   (China)

^d Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco   (China)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

SATURABLE ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0037827027     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001389     Document Type: Article

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