Title :
Engineered nonlinear optical structures based on metal nanocomposite photonic crystals
Author :
Husaini, Saima ; Menon, Vinod M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., City Univ. of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a three-fold increase in the nonlinear optical absorption of an engineered metal nanocomposite based photonic crystal as compared to a single metal-nanocomposite film of comparable thickness using Z-scan measurements.
Keywords :
light absorption; nanocomposites; nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; optical variables measurement; photonic crystals; Z-scan measurements; engineered nonlinear optical structures; metal nanocomposite photonic crystals; metal-nanocomposite film; nonlinear optical absorption; Absorption; Metals; Nonlinear optics; Optical films; Optical reflection; Photonic crystals;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
