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Optical Bandwidth Determinants for Excited State Absorptive Limiters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Perry A. Miles
Perry A. Miles*
Affiliation:
Logicon RDA, P.O. Box 92500, Los Angeles, CA 90009, USA
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Abstract

The performance of optical limiters depends on the ratio of the absorptive cross section for the transition from an excited state, σe, to that for transition from the ground state, σg. Both these factors depend on wavelength. It is appropriate to define two bandwidths, one for high energy pulse suppression, depending on σe, and the other for linear transmission, depending on σg. These bandwidths are affected differently by the use of molecular mixtures.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 374: Symposia ZB – Materials for Optical Limiting , 1994 , 51
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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