Optical limiting properties of nonlinear multimode waveguide arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 804-809

  Butler, James J ^a   Flom, Steven R ^b   Shirk, James S ^b   Taunay, Thierry E ^b   Wright, Barbara M ^b   Wiggins, Michael J ^c  

^a PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NanoMed Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; WAVEGUIDES;

BULK MATERIALS; CAPILLARY WAVEGUIDES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR ABSORBERS; OPTICAL LIMITING PROPERTIES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 58449089788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000804     Document Type: Article

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