Near-resonant high order nonlinear absorption of ZnO thin films

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19900-19908

  Chan, Yun Pei ^a   Lin, Ja Hon ^b   Hsu, Chih Chang ^a   Hsieh, Wen Feng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; EXCITONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; METALLIC FILMS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL FILMS; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; SAPPHIRE; THIN FILMS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ZINC OXIDE;

EXCITON RESONANCES; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; LASER MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; LINEAR ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL ABSORPTION; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 56749105983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019900     Document Type: Article

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