Photothermal characterization and stability analysis of polymeric dye lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 27, 2000, Pages 4959-4963

  Duchowicz, Ricardo ^a   Scaffardi, Lucía B ^a   Costela, Angel ^b   García Moreno, Inmaculada ^b   Sastre, Roberto ^c   Acuña, A Ulises ^b  

^a Centro de Investigaciones Opticas   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE POLÍMEROS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; MICROSTRUCTURE; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

POLYMERIC DYE LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0000937240     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004959     Document Type: Article

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