• DocumentCode
    2232809
  • Title

    Engineered nonlinear optical structures based on metal nanocomposite photonic crystals

  • Author

    Husaini, Saima ; Menon, Vinod M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., City Univ. of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a three-fold increase in the nonlinear optical absorption of an engineered metal nanocomposite based photonic crystal as compared to a single metal-nanocomposite film of comparable thickness using Z-scan measurements.
  • Keywords
    light absorption; nanocomposites; nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; optical variables measurement; photonic crystals; Z-scan measurements; engineered nonlinear optical structures; metal nanocomposite photonic crystals; metal-nanocomposite film; nonlinear optical absorption; Absorption; Metals; Nonlinear optics; Optical films; Optical reflection; Photonic crystals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950340