Inhibition of the two-photon absorption response exhibited by a bilayer TiO2 film with embedded Au nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16406-16417

  Torres Torres, D ^a   Trejo Valdez, M ^b   Castaneda L ^c   Torres Torres, C ^b   Tamayo Rivera, L ^d   Fernandez Hernandez R C ^e   Reyes Esqueda, J A ^e   Munoz Saldana J ^a,f   Rangel Rojo, R ^d   Oliver, A ^e  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATERIALES AVANZADOS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; FILM PREPARATION; GELS; GOLD; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS; SPRAY PYROLYSIS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

AU NANOPARTICLE; BI-LAYER; FS PULSE; INPUT-OUTPUT; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NONLINEAR OPTICAL ABSORPTION; OPTICAL KERR GATE; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; SOL-GEL TECHNIQUE; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; TIO; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; ULTRASONIC SPRAY PYROLYSIS METHOD; WAVE MIXING;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TITANIUM;

EID: 77953208496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016406     Document Type: Article

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