Optical-limiting response of rare-earth metallo-phthalocyanine-doped copolymer matrix

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1486-1490

  Aneeshkumar, B ^a   Gopinath, Pramod ^a   Vallabhan, C P G ^a   Nampoori, V P N ^a   Radhakrishnan, P ^a   Thomas, Jayan ^b  

^a Department of Physics   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); LASER DAMAGE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

OPTICAL LIMITING RESPONSE;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 0041308372     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.001486     Document Type: Article

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