Highly stable solid-state dye lasers based on polymer-filled nanoporous silica aerogels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5460, Issue , 2004, Pages 44-50

  Costela, Angel ^a   García Moreno, Inmaculada ^a   Gómez, Clara ^a   García, Olga ^b   Sastre, Roberto ^b   Molins, Elies ^c   Roig, Anna ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE POLÍMEROS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aerogel; Dye; Hybrid materials; Solid state

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; DYE LASERS; FREQUENCIES; INORGANIC POLYMERS; LASER ABLATION; MONOMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERIZATION; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; TUNING;

HYBRID MATERIALS; LASER EMISSIONS; NANOPOROUS AEROGELS; SOLID-STATE;

SILICA GEL;

EID: 10044251221     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.543881     Document Type: Conference Paper

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