Toward millions of laser pulses with pyrromethene- and perylene-doped xerogels

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 27, 1997, Pages 6760-6763

  Faloss, Mohammed ^a   Canva, Michael ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a   Brun, Alain ^a   Chaput, Frédéric ^a   Boilot, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Dye; Oxygen; Solid state dye laser; Stability; Xerogel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542442237     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006760     Document Type: Article

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