Saturable and reverse saturable absorption of Rhodamine B in methanol and water

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2470-2479

  Srinivas, N K M Naga ^a   Rao, S Venugopal ^a,b   Rao, D Narayana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METHANOL; NEODYMIUM LASERS; WATER;

EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; RHODAMINE B; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

DYES;

EID: 0347022478     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.002470     Document Type: Article

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