Wavelength dependence of two photon and free carrier absorptions in InP

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 8741-8748

  Gonzalez, Leonel P ^a,b   Murray, Joel M ^a,b   Krishnamurthy, Srinivasan ^c   Guha, Shekhar ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GENERAL DYNAMICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS;

CARRIER RECOMBINATION; FE-DOPED INP; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; NANOSECOND DURATION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION; PICOSECONDS; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

INDIUM; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ADSORPTION; INDIUM; LIGHT; PHOSPHINES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 66449135122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008741     Document Type: Article

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