Nonlinear optical properties of alkyl phthalocyanines in the femtosecond, nanosecond, and cw excitation regimes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6875, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kumar, R Sai Santosh ^a   Rao, S Venugopal ^a   Giribabu, L ^b   Rao, D Narayana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optical; Three photon absorption; Two photon absorption; Z scan

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PIGMENTS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS; ZINC SULFIDE;

BUTYL PHTHALOCYANINE; CONTINUOUS WAVE (C.W.); CW EXCITATION; FEMTO SECONDS; NONLINEAR FREQUENCY; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES (NLO); OPEN APERTURE Z SCAN; PHTHALOCYANINES (PCS); Z-SCAN TECHNIQUES; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 44849098605     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.761815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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