Third-order optical nonlinearity of C60 and C70 and their metal derivatives under picosecond laser excitation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2854, Issue , 1996, Pages 254-265

  Mavritsky, Oleg B ^a   Egorov, Audrey N ^a   Petrovsky, Anatoly N ^a   Yakubovsky, Konstantin V ^a   Blau, Werner J ^b   Weldon, Declan N ^b   Henary, Fryad Z ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fullerenes; Metal derivatives; Picosecond excitation; Selection rules; Thin films; Third order nonlinear susceptibilities; Toluene solutions; Two photon absorption; Z scan technique

Indexed keywords

FULLERENES; IRON COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; ORGANOMETALLICS; PHOTONS; PICOSECOND LASERS; THIN FILMS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

METAL DERIVATIVES; PICOSECONDS; SELECTION RULES; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY; TOLUENE SOLUTION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 29044447353     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.262987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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