Phthalocyanines for photonic applications: A new perspective

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7728, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Venugopal Rao, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optical; Optical limiting; Phthalocyanines; Three photon absorption; Z scan

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; FEMTOSECONDS; FIGURES OF MERITS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL LIMITING; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; PICOSECONDS; RELATED COMPOUNDS; THREE PHOTON ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 77954497165     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.854135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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