Anomalous nonlinear absorption behavior in an unsymmetrical phthalocyanine studied near 800 nm using femtosecond and picosecond pulses

Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 183-191

  Rao, S Venugopal ^a   Kiran, P Prem ^a   Giribabu, L ^b   Ferrari, M ^c   Kurumurthy, G ^a   Krishna, B M ^a   Sekhar, H ^a   Rao, D Narayana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Femtosecond; Nonlinear absorption; Phthalocyanines; Picosecond; Reverse saturable absorption; Switching; Two photon absorption; Z scan

Indexed keywords

FEMTOSECONDS; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; PICOSECOND; PICOSECONDS; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 77950840712     PISSN: 15430537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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