Enhanced nonlinear optical properties of graphene-oligothiophene hybrid material

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 23959-23964

  Zhang, Xiao Liang ^a   Zhao, Xin ^a   Liu, Zhi Bo ^a   Liu, Yong Sheng ^a   Chen, Yong Sheng ^a   Tian, Jian Guo ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE; HYBRID MATERIALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PULSED LASERS;

FUNCTIONALIZED; GRAPHENES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; OLIGOTHIOPHENES; OPTICAL LIMITING PROPERTIES; PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRONS; PULSED LASER; Q-SWITCHED; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

GRAPHITE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

GRAPHITE; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THIOPHENES;

EID: 73949129223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023959     Document Type: Article

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