Metalloporphyrin polymer with temporally agile, broadband nonlinear absorption for optical limiting in the near infrared

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18478-18488

  Hales, Joel M ^a   Cozzuol, Matteo ^a   Screen, Thomas E O ^b   Anderson, Harry L ^b   Perry, Joseph W ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; INFRARED DEVICES; PORPHYRINS;

EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS; METALLOPORPHYRINS; NEAR INFRARED; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; OPTICAL LIMITING; PORPHYRIN POLYMERS; WAVEGUIDE DEVICE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

METALLOPORPHYRIN; POLYMER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; KINETICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RAYS; KINETICS; METALLOPORPHYRINS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 70350279582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018478     Document Type: Article

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