Investigation of the laserlike behavior of polymeric scattering gain media under subpicosecond laser excitation

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 28, 1999, Pages 6087-6092

  Zacharakis, Giannis ^a   Heliotis, George ^a   Filippidis, George ^a   Anglos, Demetrios ^a   Papazoglou, Theodore G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

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EID: 0000876973     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006087     Document Type: Article

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