Importance of chromophore environment on the near-infrared absorption of polymeric waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 947-953

  Le Duff, Anne Claire ^a,b   Ricci, Vincent ^a   Pliska, Tomas ^a   Canva, Michael ^a,b   Stegeman, George I ^a   Chan, K Pong ^c   Twieg, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000762123     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.000947     Document Type: Article

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