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Electro-Optic Power Limiter: Broadband, Self-Actuating Optical Limiter for Visible and Infrared Radiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Tallis Y. Chang ,
Ian McMichael ,
John H. Hong  and
Monte Khoshnevisan
Tallis Y. Chang
Affiliation:
Rockwell Science Center, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Ian McMichael
Affiliation:
Rockwell Science Center, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
John H. Hong
Affiliation:
Rockwell Science Center, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Monte Khoshnevisan
Affiliation:
Rockwell Science Center, 1049 Camino Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
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Abstract

We present studies of an optical power limiter that uses a combination of the photoconductive and linear electro-optic effects. The electro-optic power limiter (EOPL), first demonstrated using CdTe in the near IR, possesses many desirable qualities including broadband wavelength responsivity, self-actuation, and low threshold power. One unique capability of EOPL, not found in any other nonlinear optical power limiter, is the fact that any light - coherent or incoherent - can be used. Our studies in CdTe, GaAs, and BSO crystals resulted in extending the wavelength range from the visible to MWIR wavelengths.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 374: Symposia ZB – Materials for Optical Limiting , 1994 , 61
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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