High-order nonlinear optical response of a polymer nanocomposite film incorporating semiconducotor CdSe quantum dots

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 13457-13469

  Liu, Xiangming ^a   LiuAdachi, Yusuke ^a   Tomita, Yasuo ^a   Oshima, Juro ^b   Nakashima, Takuya ^c   Kawai, Tsuyoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOCRYSTALS; POLYMER FILMS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; QUANTUM OPTICS; REFRACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; VOLUME FRACTION;

MAXWELL-GARNETT MODELS; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; NONLINEAR OPTICAL SUSCEPTIBILITIES; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84863759413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013457     Document Type: Article

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