• DocumentCode
    349317
  • Title

    Third-order optical nonlinearities of PbS-polymer nanocomposite with excitation of femtosecond pulses

  • Author

    Li, Heping ; Liu, B. ; Kam, C.H. ; Lam, Y.L. ; Que, W.Z. ; Gan, L.M. ; Chew, C.H. ; Xu, G.Q.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    181
  • Abstract
    We present an experimental study of third-order optical nonlinearities in the new PbS-polymer nanocomposite, using the Z-scan technique with femtosecond laser pulses at 780-nm wavelength. The mechanisms responsible for the observed nonlinearities are also discussed
  • Keywords
    II-VI semiconductors; composite materials; high-speed optical techniques; lead compounds; nanostructured materials; nonlinear optics; optical polymers; 780 nm; PbS-polymer nanocomposite; Z-scan technique; femtosecond laser pulses; femtosecond pulse excitation; nonlinearities; third-order optical nonlinearities; Nanocrystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical films; Optical polymers; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Optical variables control; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5634-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.1999.813538
  • Filename
    813538