Femtosecond third-order optical nonlinearity of polycrystalline BiFeO 3

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10970-10975

  Gu, Bing ^a   Wang, Yang ^b   Wang, John ^b   Ji, Wei ^b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTION; THIN FILMS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; LINEAR AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC DEVICES; NONLINEAR REFRACTION INDEX; POLYCRYSTALLINE BIFEO; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; TRANSMITTANCE MEASUREMENTS; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION (2PA);

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASERS; LIGHT; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTONS; QUARTZ; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67649252823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010970     Document Type: Article

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