• Title of article

    Two-photon assisted excited state absorption in multiferroic YCrO3 nanoparticles

  • Author/Authors

    Krishnan، نويسنده , , Shiji and Suchand Sandeep، نويسنده , , C.S. and Philip، نويسنده , , Reji and Kalarikkal، نويسنده , , Nandakumar، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    59
  • To page
    63
  • Abstract
    We report a novel functionality for the ferroelectric-antiferromagnet YCrO3 powder of optical limiting upon illumination by nanosecond laser pulses at 532 nm. The optical limiting properties are investigated using the open aperture z-scan technique. The obtained nonlinearity fits to a three-photon like absorption mechanism. It is proposed that this nonlinearity is caused by two-photon absorption, followed by excited state absorption. Two different sized samples were investigated and the nonlinearity is found to be size dependent.
  • Journal title
    Chemical Physics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2012
  • Journal title
    Chemical Physics Letters
  • Record number

    1932774