Mixed two-and three-photon absorption in bulk rutile (TiO2) around 800 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 3118-3128

  Evans, Christopher C ^a   Bradley, Jonathan D B ^a   Martí Panameño, Erwin A ^b   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; OXIDE MINERALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; EXTENDED MODEL; EXTRAORDINARY AXIS; FIGURES OF MERITS; MULTI-PHOTON ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR INDEX OF REFRACTION; THREE PHOTON ABSORPTION; THREE-PHOTON; TIO; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

PHOTONS;

TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TITANIUM;

EID: 84856414109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003118     Document Type: Article

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