Fabrication of Carbon nanotube-poly-methylmethacrylate composites for nonlinear photonic devices

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 11337-11343

  Martinez, Amos ^a   Uchida, Sho ^b   Song, Yong Won ^c   Ishigure, Takaaki ^b   Yamashita, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; DISPERSIONS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ESTERS; FABRICATION; NANOTUBES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; YARN;

METHYL METHACRYLATES; NANOTUBE DEPOSITION; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC DEVICES; PASSIVE MODE-LOCKED; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE;

EID: 47849123315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011337     Document Type: Article

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