Ultrafast relaxation times of metalloporphyrins by time-resolved degenerate four-wave mixing with incoherent light

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2710-2715

  Narayana Rao, D ^a   Venugopal Rao, S ^a   Aranda, F J ^b   Rao, D V G L N ^b   Nakashima, M ^c   Akkara, J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c US Army Materials Research Center   (United States)

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EID: 0009983852     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.002710     Document Type: Article

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