Photothermal analysis of polymeric dye laser materials excited at different pump rates

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1029-1035

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

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES OPTICAS   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; CROSSLINKING; DYES; FREQUENCIES; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PUMPING (LASER);

PHOTOTHERMAL ANALYSIS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0037455668     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001029     Document Type: Article

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