Extremely nondegenerate two-photon absorption in direct-gap semiconductors [Invited]

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22951-22960

  Cirloganu, Claudiu M ^a   Padilha, Lazaro A ^a   Fishman, Dmitry A ^a   Webster, Scott ^a   Hagan, David J ^a   Stryland, Eric W Van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

CDTE; DIRECT-GAP SEMICONDUCTOR; GAAS; LARGE DISPERSION; NARROW-GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; NET EFFECT; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; PHOTON ENERGY; PICOSECONDS; PUMP PHOTONS; TWO PHOTON; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION (2PA); TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; ZNO;

PHOTONS;

EID: 80755168277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022951     Document Type: Article

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