Fe3O4-Ag nanocomposites for optical limiting: Broad temporal response and low threshold

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6183-6190

  Xing, Guichuan ^a   Jiang, Jiang ^b   Ying, Jackie Y ^b   Ji, Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOCOMPOSITES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUARTZ; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AG NANOPARTICLE; AG PARTICLES; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; LOW THRESHOLDS; NANOSECOND LASER PULSE; NONLINEAR SCATTERING; OPTICAL LIMITING; QUARTZ CELLS; SELF-DEFOCUSING; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

SILVER;

FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GOLD; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77949628224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006183     Document Type: Article

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