Nonlinear optical switching behavior of Au nanocubes and nano-octahedra investigated by femtosecond Z -scan measurements

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Lee, Yih Hong ^a   Yan, Yongli ^a   Polavarapu, Lakshminarayana ^a   Xu, Qing Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT PROCESS; EXCITATION INTENSITY; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; FEMTOSECOND; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; NANOCUBES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION PROPERTIES; PLASMON BAND; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; Z-SCAN EXPERIMENT; Z-SCAN MEASUREMENT;

ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 67650709048     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3177064     Document Type: Article

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