Large third-order optical nonlinearity realized in symmetric nonpolar carotenoids

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Fujiwara, Masazumi ^a   Yamauchi, Kensei ^a   Sugisaki, Mitsuru ^a   Yanagi, Kazuhiro ^b   Gall, Andrew ^c   Robert, Bruno ^c   Cogdell, Richard J ^d   Hashimoto, Hideki ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c SERVICE DE CHIMIE BIOORGANIQUE ET DE MARQUAGE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 54449085824     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.161101     Document Type: Article

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