An all-optical picosecond switch in polydiacetylene

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1120-1122

  Abdeldayem, Hossin ^a   Frazier, Donald O ^b   Paley, Mark S ^b,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COATING TECHNIQUES; HELIUM NEON LASERS; LASER MODE LOCKING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SWITCHING; THIN FILMS;

HOLLOW FIBERS;

ACETYLENE;

EID: 0037450211     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1543251     Document Type: Article

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