Saturable absorption of film composites with single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 150-154

  Khudyakov, Dmitry V ^a   Borodkin, Andrey A ^a   Lobach, Anatoly S ^b   Ryzhkov, Aleksandr V ^c   Vartapetov, Sergey K ^a  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPOSITE FILMS; GRAPHENE; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOTUBES; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; YARN;

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; FILM COMPOSITES; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; OPTICAL DAMAGES; PEAK INTENSITY; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURATION INTENSITY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84872562746     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.000150     Document Type: Article

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