Saturable absorption in composites doped with metal nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 21918-21925

  Kim, Kwang Hyon ^a,b   Husakou, Anton ^a   Herrmann, Joachim ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b State Academy of Sciences   (North Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; LOCKS (FASTENERS); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

FILLING FACTOR; MAXWELL GARNETT FORMALISM; NONLINEAR CONTRIBUTIONS; NONLINEAR REFRACTION INDEX; PARTICLES OF ARBITRARY SHAPES; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURATION INTENSITY; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOSPHERE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

LASERS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSPHERES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 78049488381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021918     Document Type: Article

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