Nonlinear optical absorption of ZnO doped with copper nanoparticles in the picosecond and nanosecond pulse laser field

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2839-2845

  Ryasnyansky, Aleksandr ^a,b   Palpant, Bruno ^a   Debrus, Solange ^a   Ganeev, Rashid ^c,d   Stepanov, Andrey ^e,f   Can, Nurdogan ^g   Buchal, Christoph ^h   Uysal, Sibel ^g  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b SAMARKAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (Uzbekistan)

^c ARIFOV INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Uzbekistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f ZAVOISKY PHYSICAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NOISE ABATEMENT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; NANOCOMPOSITE LAYERS; PICOSECOND; PULSE LASER FIELDS;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 19944425149     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002839     Document Type: Article

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