Nonlinear absorption in CuPc-doped PMMA thin film in the femtosecond regime: Experimental and theoretical studies

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14571-14581

  Li, Fang ^a   Lu, Peixiang ^a   Long, Hua ^a   Yang, Guang ^a   Li, Yuhua ^a   Zheng, Qiguang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LASER PULSES; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; OPTICAL LIMITING MATERIALS; RATE-EQUATION ANALYSIS; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

THIN FILMS;

INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; PHTHALOCYANINE COPPER; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDOLES; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 51849165664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014571     Document Type: Article

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