Broadband optical and microwave nonlinear response in topological insulator

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 587-596

  Chen, Shuqing ^a   Zhao, Chujun ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Huang, Huihui ^b   Lu, Shunbin ^a   Zhang, Han ^a   Wen, Shuangchun ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MODULATION DEPTH; NATURAL CONSEQUENCES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SATURATION INTENSITY; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 84900110173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.4.000587     Document Type: Article

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