The considerably interest in the possibility of fabricating efficient optical limiters based on solid-state materials have led us to develop an easy method for producing RSA compound doped in PMMA. The chosen RSA dye was a soluble silicon phthalocyanine (SiPc(OC₇H₁₅)). By comparing the non linear absorption of this compound in solution in THF and in PMMA, we show that broadband solid-state limiters can be made with such a dye for visible nanosecond-pulse excitation. The importance of broadband criterion such as the photopic transmission to adjust the transmission at low incident energy in conjunction with the color neutrality are also stressed.

Date Published: 1 November 1996
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 2852, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials IX, (1 November 1996); doi: 10.1117/12.256175

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2852:
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials IX
Gustaaf R. Moehlmann, Editor(s)