Ultrafast nonresonant third-order optical nonlinearity of a conjugated 3,3′-bipyridine derivative from 1150 to 1600 nm

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 4420-4422

  Chen, Qiying ^a,c   Sargent, Edward H ^a   Leclerc, Nicolas ^b   Attias, André Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; LASER TUNING; LENSES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL SWITCHING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0037963451     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1584517     Document Type: Article

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