Photostability enhancement of pyrromethene 567 and perylene orange in oxygen-free liquid and solid dye lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5862-5871

  Rahn, Mark D ^a   King, Terence A ^a   Gorman, Anthony A ^a   Hamblett, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Laser dyes; Oxygen; Perylene; Photostability; Poly(methyl methacrylate); Pyrromethene; Rhodamine; Singlet oxygen; Solgel; Solid state dye lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242336055     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005862     Document Type: Article

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