Third-order Optical Nonlinearities of Singlewall Carbon Nanotubes for Nonlinear Transmission Limiting Application

Jaetae Seo, SeongMin Ma, Qiguang Yang, Linwood Creekmore, Russell Battle, Makaye Tabibi, H. Brown, Ashley Jackson, Tifney Skyles, Bagher Tabibi,

Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2006 · 22 citations · 11 references

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Third-order nonlinear susceptibility of single wall carbon nanotubes thin film was measured to be ~1.4 x 10(exp -16) sq m/V2. The nonlinear transmission limiting threshold of carbon SWNT was ~20 MW/sq cm with visible and nanosecond laser excitation.

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