Nanosecond nonlinear optical extinction in dispersed multi walled carbon nanotubes excited at 532 nm

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4876, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 750-757

  O'Flaherty, Sean M ^a   Hold, Stephanie V ^a   Cadek, Martin ^a   Drury, Anna ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a   Blau, Werner J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Elastic scattering; Fullerene; Optical limiting; Polymers; Z Scan

Indexed keywords

FULLERENES; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EXTINCTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

ELASTIC SCATTERING;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0042232040     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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