Third-order optical nonlinearity originating from room-temperature exciton in layered compounds LaCuOS and LaCuOSe

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 879-881

  Kamioka, Hayato ^a   Hiramatsu, Hidenori ^a   Ohta, Hiromichi ^a   Hirano, Masahiro ^a   Ueda, Kazushige ^b,c   Kamiya, Toshio ^b   Hosono, Hideo ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; EXCITONS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FEMTOSECOND TIME RESOLUTION; OPTICAL ABSORPTION BANDS; OPTICAL NONLINEAR DEVICES; ROOM TEMPERATURE EXCITON;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 1542375024     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1646221     Document Type: Article

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