Effects of chromophore dissociation on the optical properties of rare-earth-doped polymers

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 30, 1998, Pages 7100-7106

  Gao, Renyuan ^a   Koeppen, Christopher ^a,b   Zheng, Guoqi ^a   Garito, Anthony F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; DISSOCIATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EVAPORATION; FABRICATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SPECTROSCOPY;

RARE EARTH DOPED ORGANIC POLYMERS; TETRAKIS RARE EARTH CHROMOPHORES;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0032552741     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007100     Document Type: Article

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