Title

Investigation Of An Optical Limiting Mechanism In Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Abstract

We report our investigation of the mechanism that is responsible for the optical limiting behavior in multiwalled carbon nanotubes. We conducted energy-dependent transmission measurements, picosecond time-resolved pump-probe experiment, and nonlinear scattering experiments at 532-nm wavelength on multiwalled carbon nanotube suspension. For comparison, C60–toluene solutions and carbon black suspensions were also studied in the same experiments. The similarities that we observed between the multiwalled carbon nanotubes and carbon black suspension suggest that nonlinear scattering, which is known to be responsible for the limiting action in carbon black suspension, should play an important role in the limiting effect in multiwalled carbon nanotubes. © 2000 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

4-10-2000

Publication Title

Applied Optics

Volume

39

Issue

11

Number of Pages

1988-2001

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.39.001998

Socpus ID

0001115857 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0001115857

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