Linear and nonlinear optical characteristics of ZnO-SiO2 nanocomposites

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 4345-4351

  Irimpan, Litty ^a   Krishnan, Bindu ^b   Nampoori, V P N ^a   Radhakrishnan, P ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY C MET   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ZINC OXIDE;

COLLOIDAL CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 53549109456     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.004345     Document Type: Article

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