Kinetic model of irreversible photobleaching of dye-doped polymer waveguide materials

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1294-1301

  McKenna, Ed ^a   Xue, Jiuzhi ^b,e   Verdoni, Angelo ^c   Yetzbacher, Mike ^c   Fan, Regis ^d   Mickelson, Alan ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b Photonport Technologies   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Advanced Technology Center   (United States)

^e Enlightec   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; BLEACHING; GAS LASERS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYMERS;

ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; BENZOCYLCOBUTENE; KINETIC MODEL; PERFLUOROCYCLOBUTENE; PHOTOBLEACHING; RADIATIVE RATE EQUATIONS; STILBENELIKE DYES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 10044247329     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001294     Document Type: Article

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