Femtosecond third-order nonlinear spectra of lead-germanium oxide glasses containing silver nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6844-6850

  De Boni, Leonardo ^a   Barbano, Emerson C ^a   De Assumpção, Thiago A ^a   Misoguti, Lino ^a   Kassab, Luciana R P ^b   Zilio, Sergio C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FACULDADE DE TECNOLOGIA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM OXIDES; GLASS; LEAD OXIDE; NANOPARTICLES; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; FEMTOSECONDS; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; NONLINEAR SPECTRUM; OPTICAL LIMITERS; OXIDE GLASS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; THIRD-ORDER; VISIBLE RANGE;

SILVER;

GERMANIUM; GERMANIUM DIOXIDE; GLASS; LEAD; LEAD OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE; SILVER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

GERMANIUM; GLASS; LEAD; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84858992652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.006844     Document Type: Article

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