Ultrafast nonresonant third-order optical nonlinearity of fullerene-containing polyurethane films at telecommunication wavelengths

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2115-2117

  Chen, Qiying ^a,c   Kuang, Li ^b   Sargent, Edward H ^a   Wang, Zhi Yuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENES; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYURETHANES;

POLYURETHANE FILMS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 0142058372     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1609660     Document Type: Article

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