Effective third-order susceptibility of silicon-nanocrystal-doped silica

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26275-26284

  Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Zhu, Weiren ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLITES; NANOCRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; SILICON; TENSORS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AXES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR COMPOSITE; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SUSCEPTIBILITY TENSORS; TENSOR PROPERTIES; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY;

FUSED SILICA;

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; SURFACE PROPERTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPARTICLES; SILICON; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84870602260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026275     Document Type: Article

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