Observation of both second-harmonic and multiphoton-absorption-induced luminescence in ZnO

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1533-1535

  Dai, D C ^a   Xu, S J ^b   Shi, S L ^b   Xie, M H ^b   Che, C M ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Interferometric autocorrelation; Luminescence; Multiphoton absorption (MPA); Second harmonic generation (SHG); Zinc oxide (ZNO)

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRIC AUTOCORRELATION; MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION (SHG); ZNO;

ABSORPTION; AUTOCORRELATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER EXCITATION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ZINC;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 34848836205     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.877620     Document Type: Article

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