Excited-state enhancement of third-order optical nonlinearities: Photodynamics and characterization

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 26843-26853

  Gu, Bing ^a   Lou, Kai ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Li, Yongnan ^a   Wang, Hui Tian ^a,b   Ji, Wei ^c  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; FEMTOSECONDS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; ONE PHOTON ABSORPTION; OPTICAL NONLINEAR; PHOTODYNAMIC PROCESS; PICOSECONDS; RATE EQUATIONS; REFRACTION COEFFICIENT; THIRD-ORDER; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES;

EXCITED STATES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650582453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026843     Document Type: Article

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