Femtosecond-to-nanosecond nonlinear spectroscopy of polymethine molecules

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2664-2685

  Lepkowicz, Richard S ^a,b   Cirloganu, Claudiu M ^a   Fu, Jie ^a   Przhonska, Olga V ^a,c   Hagan, David J ^a   Van Stryland, Eric W ^a   Bondar, Mikhail V ^c   Slominsky, Yuriy L ^d   Kachkovski, Alexei D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^d INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PUMPING; SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION SPECTRA; FEMTOSECOND-TO-NANOSECOND NONLINEAR SPECTROSCOPY; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION; POLYMETHINE MOLECULES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 30844440718     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.002664     Document Type: Article

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