Two-photon absorption and spectral-narrowed light source

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1775-1781

  Fang, Hong Hua ^a   Xu, Bin ^b   Chen, Qi Dai ^a   Ding, Ran ^a   Chen, Fei Peng ^b   Yang, Jie ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Tian, Wen Jing ^b   Feng, Jing ^a   Wang, Hai Yu ^a   Sun, Hong Bo ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jilin University   (China)

Author keywords

Light source; organic crystal; spectralnarrowed; two photon absorption; upconversion

Indexed keywords

LOW THRESHOLDS; NEAR-IR EXCITATIONS; ORGANIC CRYSTAL; PHOTONIC PROPERTIES; SECOND HARMONICS; SOLID-STATE FLUORESCENCE; SPECTRALNARROWED; TPA CROSS SECTIONS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; TWO-PHOTON EXCITED FLUORESCENCE; UP-CONVERSION; Z-SCAN METHOD;

ABSORPTION; FLUORESCENCE; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77957743176     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2070058     Document Type: Article

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