Spectral mapping of the third-order optical nonlinearity of glass-metal nanocomposites

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 17170-17178

  Halonen, Mikko ^a   Lipovskii, Andrey ^b   Zhurikhina, Valentina ^b   Lyashenko, Dmitry ^a   Svirko, Yuri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; GLASS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PLASMONS; PROBES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FEMTOSECOND PUMPS; GLASS NANO-COMPOSITES; INDUCED TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; SPECTRAL MAPPINGS; SPECTRAL PROFILE; THIRD ORDER OPTICAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES;

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 70349222718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017170     Document Type: Article

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