Ultra-fast switching of light by absorption saturation in vacuum ultra-violet region

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 23443-23448

  Yoneda, Hitoki ^a   Inubushi, Yuichi ^b   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^b   Yamaguchi, Yuta ^a   Sato, Fumiya ^a   Morimoto, Shunsuke ^b   Kumagai, Taisuke ^b   Nagasono, Mitsuru ^c   Higashiya, Atsushi ^c   Yabashi, Makina ^c   Ishikawa, Tetsuya ^c   Ohashi, Haruhiko ^c,d   Kimura, Hiroaki ^c,d   Kitamura, Hikaru ^e   Kodama, Ryosuke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LASERS; LIGHT; METALS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; PLASMA WAVES; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; VACUUM;

AT-WAVELENGTH; CAN DESIGN; ENERGY FLUENCES; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; HIGH INTENSITY; IN-VACUUM; INTERACTION FEATURES; LOW-INTENSITY; NEW SCIENCE; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTON ENERGY; PLASMA FREQUENCIES; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SOLID METALS; THIN LAYERS; ULTRA-FAST; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS;

HIGH ENERGY LASERS;

METAL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VACUUM;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VACUUM;

EID: 73949098901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023443     Document Type: Article

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