Guest-host optical limiting elastomers with high laser damage threshold

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3146, Issue , 1997, Pages 134-141

  De Rosa, Michael E ^a   Su, Weigie ^a   Krein, Doug ^a   Brant, Mark C ^b   McLean, Daniel G ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Crosslink; Damage threshold; Elastomer; Glass transition temperature; Guest host; Nonlinear optics; Optical limiting; Thermomechanical

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; GLASS; LASER DAMAGE; LASERS; LIQUIDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTORESISTS; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; PORPHYRINS; RUBBER; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT; THERMOSETS; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CROSSLINK; DAMAGE THRESHOLD; ELASTOMER; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; GUEST-HOST; OPTICAL LIMITING; THERMOMECHANICAL;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 10444290240     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279301     Document Type: Conference Paper

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