Optical nonlinearity of silver-decorated graphene

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 669-675

  Kalanoor, Basanth S ^a   Bisht, Prem B ^a   Ali, Akbar S ^a   Baby, Tessy T ^a   Ramaprabhu, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN; NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

1064 NM; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; INCIDENT INTENSITY; LOW-INTENSITY; MULTI-LAYERED; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; PLASMONIC; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; Z-SCAN TECHNIQUE;

SILVER;

EID: 84861465474     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.000669     Document Type: Article

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