Mechanisms of ultrafast refractive index change in organic system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4797, Issue , 2002, Pages 65-75

  Kamada, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accumulated thermal effect; Molecular orbital method; Optical heterodyne detection; Optical Kerr effect; Organic nonlinear optical material; Ultrafast nonlinear refractivity; Z scan

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HETERODYNING; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL EFFECTS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

OPTICAL HETERODYNE DETECTION; ORGANIC SYSTEM; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR REFRACTIVITY; ULTRAFAST REFRACTIVE INDEX;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037951780     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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