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Optical limiting with higher fullerenes

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Optical limiting has been investigated for higher fullerenes and compared with C60. The transmission through an aperture placed after solutions of C76, C78, and C84 in tetrahydronaphthalene was measured using Q-switched laser pulses with a wavelength of 532 nm and a pulse width of 8 ns FWHM. Unlike C60, the transmission for these higher fullerene solutions decreased linearly with increasing optical pulse energy. We attribute the linearized optical limiting response to self-defocusing of the optical beam and the absence of excited-state absorption. The ground state absorption spectra for the higher fullerenes suggest their use for optical limiting in the near infrared, and the C84-tetrahydronaphthalene solution was found to be an optical limiter at 1.064 μm.

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  1. Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    A. R. KOST

  2. HRL Laboratories LLC, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, Malibu, CA, 90265, USA

    J. E. JENSEN

  3. Materials and Electrochemical Research Corporation, Tucson, CA, USA

    R. O. LOUFTY & J. C. WITHER

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KOST, A.R., JENSEN, J.E., LOUFTY, R.O. et al. Optical limiting with higher fullerenes. Appl. Phys. B 80, 281–283 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-005-1753-1

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