Large reverse saturable absorption under weak continuous incoherent light

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 938-946

  Hirata, Shuzo ^a   Totani, Kenro ^b   Yamashita, Takashi ^c   Adachi, Chihaya ^d   Vacha, Martin ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SOURCES; METAL COMPLEXES; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

AROMATIC MOLECULES; CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE; INCOHERENT SOURCES; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; OPTICAL LIMITING PROPERTIES; REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION; SHORT-PULSE LASERS; TRIPLET-TRIPLET ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ESTRADIOL; STEROID;

ABSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; LASER; LIGHT; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ABSORPTION; ESTRADIOL; LASERS; LIGHT; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; STEROIDS;

EID: 84921650592     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4081     Document Type: Article

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