Photodarkening and partial photobleaching: Application to dichromated gelatin

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 707-713

  Caron, Serge ^a,b,d   Lessard, Roger A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Universit'e Laval   (Canada)

^c Faculty of Sciences and Engineering   (Canada)

^d INO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLYMERS;

PHOTOBLEACHING;

PHOTOCHROMISM;

EID: 0005688657     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000707     Document Type: Article

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