Stable doped hybrid sol-gel materials for solid-state dye laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2213-2218

  Nhung, Tran H ^a,b   Canva, Michael ^a   Dao, Truong T A ^a,b   Chaput, Frédéric ^a   Brun, Alain ^a   Hung, Nguyen D ^b   Boilot, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE LASERS; SOL-GELS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

LASER CAVITY;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0041881990     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002213     Document Type: Article

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