Stimulated Rayleigh-Bragg scattering from a two-photon absorbing CdSe-CdS-ZnS quantum-rods system: Optical power limiting and phase-conjugation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 894-901

  He, Guang S ^a   Yong, Ken Tye ^a   Qin, Hai Yan ^a,b,c   Zheng, Qingdong ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a   He, Sailing ^b   Ågren, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Optical phase conjugation; Power limiting; Quantum rods (QRs); Stimulated Rayleigh Bragg scattering; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

CDS; CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; ENERGY TRANSFER EFFICIENCIES; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION MECHANISMS; OPTICAL PHASE; OPTICAL POWER LIMITING; ORGANIC DYES; PHASE CONJUGATIONS; POWER LIMITING; PULSE WAVEFORMS; PUMP THRESHOLDS; PURE SOLVENTS; QUANTUM RODS (QRS); SCATTERING MEDIUMS; SPECTRAL STRUCTURES; STIMULATED RAYLEIGH-BRAGG SCATTERING; STIMULATED SCATTERINGS; TWO PHOTONS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PHOTONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ZINC SULFIDE;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 65349110486     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.924432     Document Type: Article

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