Pump-probe experiments with sub-100 femtosecond pulses for characterizing the excited state dynamics of phthalocyanine thin films

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7599, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rao, S Venugopal ^a   Swain, Debasis ^a   Tewari, Surya P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Femtosecond; Phthalocyanines; Pump probe; Thin films

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATORS; EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS; FEMTOSECOND (FS) PULSE; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; FEMTOSECOND PUMP-PROBE TECHNIQUES; FEMTOSECONDS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHTHALOCYANINES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; PUMP-PROBE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE SHOTS; ULTRA-FAST; UNSYMMETRICAL; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; EXCITED STATES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PROBES; PUMPS; THIN FILMS; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77951553439     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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