Intense low threshold nonlinear absorption and nonlinear refraction in a new organic-polymer nanocomposite

Materials Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 981-989

  Louie Frobel, P G ^a   Suresh, S R ^a   Mayadevi, S ^a   Sreeja, S ^a   Mukherjee, Chandrachur ^b   Muneera, C I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^b RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Nanostructures; Optical materials; Optical properties

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS POLYMERS; CONTINUOUS WAVE; DYE MOLECULE; DYE-POLYMER; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLEXIBLE PROCESSING; INCIDENT INTENSITY; LOW POWER; LOW THRESHOLDS; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SOLID FILMS; VINYL POLYMER; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

ABSORPTION; AMORPHOUS FILMS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; REFRACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 79960556374     PISSN: 02540584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2011.05.045     Document Type: Article

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