Effects of excited-state absorption on two-photon absorbing materials

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2521-2528

  Gao, Yongwang ^a   Potasek, Mary J ^a,b  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CHROMOPHORES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EXCITED-STATE ABSORPTION (ESA); TEMPORAL PULSE DISTORTION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION (TPA);

PHOTONS;

EID: 33744475891     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002521     Document Type: Article

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