Saturable and reverse saturable absorption in aqueous silver nanoparticles at off-resonant wavelength

Optical and Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 1-5, 2012, Pages 49-58

  Hari, Misha ^a   Mathew, S ^a   Nithyaja, B ^a   Joseph, Santhi Ani ^a   Nampoori, V P N ^a   Radhakrishnan, P ^a  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

Reverse saturable absorption; Saturable absorption; Silver nanocolloid; Surface plasmon resonance; Third order optical nonlinearity; Two photon absorption; Z scan

Indexed keywords

REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; Z-SCAN;

EXCITED STATES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PLASMONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

SILVER;

EID: 84856510627     PISSN: 03068919     EISSN: 1572817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11082-011-9502-7     Document Type: Article

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