Nonlinear organic liquid-cored fiber array for all-optical switching and sensor protection against short-pulsed lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 946-951

  Khoo, Iam Choon ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Excited state absorption; Fiber array; Limiting; Nonlinear liquids; Two photon

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DETECTORS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; FLUIDS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER BEAMS; LASER FUSION; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LIQUID LASERS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SENSORS;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; DYNAMIC RANGE (DR); EXPOSURE LEVELS; FIBER ARRAYS; FIBER CORES; FIBER GEOMETRIES; FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); LARGE EFFECTIVE; LOW THRESHOLDS; MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTION (MPA); NON LINEAR FIBERS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; OF SENSORS; ORGANIC LIQUIDS; SHORT LASER PULSES; SHORT-PULSED; TWO PHOTONS; VISIBLE IMAGING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 45249100649     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.916238     Document Type: Article

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