Optical power limiting with photoinduced anisotropy of azobenzene films

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4560-4565

  Wu, Pengfei ^a   Philip, Reji ^a,b   Laghumavarapu, Ramesh B ^a   Devulapalli, Janakriam ^a   Rao, Devulapalli V G L N ^a   Kimball, Brian R ^c   Nakashima, Masato ^c   De Cristofano, Barry S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Materials Science Team   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BENZENE; ISOMERIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

PHOTOINDUCED ANISOTROPY;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 0041379886     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004560     Document Type: Article

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