Fullerenes, nanotubes and nanoclusters as nonlinear optical limiters

Author

Belousova, V.P. ; Belousova, I.M. ; Danilov, O.B. ; Grigor´ev, V.A. ; Gavronskaya, E.A. ; Krisko, A.V. ; Mironova, N.G. ; Murav´eva, T.D. ; Scobelev, A.G. ; Yur´ev, M.S. ; Ponomarev, A.N.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Laser Phys., St. Petersburg, Russia

fYear

2003

fDate

22-27 June 2003

Firstpage

59

Abstract

Optical limiting mechanism in fullerene containing liquids and solid-state matrices, and suspensions of nanotubes and nanoclusters were investigated in wavelength range 0.3-1.315 mkm. Solutions of fullerenes C₆₀ and C₇₀ in toluene and CCL₄ were studied. The optical limiting in fullerene-containing media was determined by two processes- the reverse saturated absorption (RSA) and optically induced stimulated scattering (SS). This study has developed several variants multi-stage schemes of optical limiters on the base of fullerene-containing systems C₆₀-CCl₄, C₆₀-toluene and also at the suspensions of Astralene.

Keywords

carbon; carbon compounds; fullerenes; nanotubes; optical limiters; optical saturable absorption; organic compounds; stimulated scattering; suspensions; Astralene; C₆₀-CCl₄; C₆₀-toluene; fullerenes; nanoclusters; nanotubes; nonlinear optical limiters; optical limiting; optically induced stimulated scattering; reverse saturated absorption; solid-state matrices; suspensions; Carbon; Laser theory; Nanotubes; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical saturation; Optical scattering; Organic materials; Stimulated emission; Suspensions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7733-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EQEC.2003.1313916

Filename

1313916