Title :
Enhanced optical limiting effects in multiphoton absorbers using cylindrical vector beams
Author :
Bing Gu ; Jia-Lu Wu ; Ning Sheng ; Dahui Liu ; Yiping Cui
Author_Institution :
Adv. Photonics Center, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
Optical limiting effects can be enhanced by designing nonlinear optical materials and by exploiting various limiting mechanisms. Here, we present the enhancement of optical limiting effects by manipulating the polarization distribution of the light field.
Keywords :
light polarisation; multiphoton processes; optical limiters; optical materials; cylindrical vector beams; light field; multiphoton absorbers; nonlinear optical materials; optical limiting effects; polarization distribution; Limiting; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Optical sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
