Optical limiting with reverse saturable absorbers

Stephen William McCahon; Lee W. Tutt; Marvin B. Klein; George C. Valley

doi:10.1117/12.21680

1 October 1990 Optical limiting with reverse saturable absorbers

Stephen William McCahon, Lee W. Tutt, Marvin B. Klein, George C. Valley

Proceedings Volume 1307, Electro-Optical Materials for Switches, Coatings, Sensor Optics, and Detectors; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21680
Event: 1990 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1990, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

We have used a physically realistic model to investigate the spatial and temporal behavior of reverse saturable absorption and optical limiting in organometallic cluster compounds. An algorithm was developed to solve numerically the model and is used for the case of a collimated beam to determine various material parameters by fitting theory to experimental optical limiting data. Using these parameters, the algorithm was then extended to the case of converging and/or diverging beams.

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Stephen William McCahon, Lee W. Tutt, Marvin B. Klein, and George C. Valley "Optical limiting with reverse saturable absorbers", Proc. SPIE 1307, Electro-Optical Materials for Switches, Coatings, Sensor Optics, and Detectors, (1 October 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21680

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