Glass-ceramics with embedded gallium/aluminum nanoalloys formed by heat treatment and femtosecond laser irradiation

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 776-781

  Lin, Geng ^a,b   Pan, Huaihai ^a   Luo, Fangfang ^a   Chen, Qingxi ^a   Chen, Danping ^a   Qiu, Jianrong ^c,d   Zhao, Quanzhong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED STRUCTURES; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; FEMTOSECOND LASER IRRADIATION; FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND LASERS; NANO-ALLOYS; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; THIRD ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ULTRA-FAST OPTICAL SWITCHES; VISIBLE REGION; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

GLASS CERAMICS; HEAT TREATMENT; IRRADIATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

GLASS LASERS;

EID: 84856522360     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2011.04970.x     Document Type: Article

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