Nonlinear refraction in semitransparent pyrolytic carbon films

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1822-1827

  Kaplas, Tommi ^a   Karvonen, Lasse ^b   Rönn, John ^b   Saleem, Muhammad Rizwan ^a,c   Kujala, Sami ^b   Honkanen, Seppo ^a   Svirko, Yuri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE GRAPHITE; LINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; PYROLYTIC CARBON; Z-SCAN MEASUREMENT;

GRAPHENE; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CARBON FILMS;

EID: 84873473953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001822     Document Type: Article

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