Saturable and reverse saturable absorption in silver nanodots at 532 nm using picosecond laser pulses

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Gurudas, Ullas ^a   Brooks, Elijah ^a   Bubb, Daniel M ^a   Heiroth, Sebastian ^b   Lippert, Thomas ^b   Wokaun, Alexander ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RHENIUM; SILVER; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ELECTRON DYNAMICS; FOCAL POINTS; NANODOTS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR PROCESSES; PICOSECOND LASER PULSES; PULSED LASERS; RECOVERY TIMES; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTIONS; SATURABLE ABSORPTIONS; SCAN TECHNIQUES; THIRD ORDERS;

ABSORPTION;

EID: 54049145904     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2990056     Document Type: Article

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