Multi-photon excitation properties of CdSe quantum dots solutions and optical limiting behavior in infrared range

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 12818-12833

  He, Guang S ^a   Yong, Ken Tye ^a   Zheng, Qingdong ^a   Sahoo, Yudhisthira ^a   Baev, Alexander ^a   Ryasnyanskiy, Aleksandr I ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER PULSES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

MULTI-PHOTON ABSORPTION; OPTICAL LIMITING BEHAVIOR; OPTICAL POWER; THREE-PHOTON ABSORPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 35148891140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012818     Document Type: Article

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